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Hospital trust in good health
Date published: 19 May 2010
THE health trust that runs the Royal Oldham Hospital has been named among the top 40 in the country.
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust was honoured in the CHKS Top Hospitals Programme for 2010.
The awards are now in their 10th year and are based on the evaluation of 21 key performance indicators covering safety, clinical effectiveness, health outcomes, efficiency, patient experience and quality of care.
The winners were announced at an awards ceremony in London hosted by CHKS, a leading independent provider of healthcare intelligence and quality improvement services.
Trust chairman John Jesky praised staff who have worked hard to retain the nationally-recognised award. The trust was listed in the top 40 for the first time last year.
He said: “I’m delighted that we have again been included in this year’s top 40. It is to the credit of our professional and hard-working staff across all our hospitals that we remain committed to providing high quality patient care.
“The award is a tribute and reflection on all the staff at Pennine Acute Trust who work hard to achieve these high standards. On behalf of the board, I would like to thank them for their efforts.
“While the awards are a useful benchmark for us to continue to improve, the performance data is only as good as the patient experience. We are therefore committed to ensuring our services are safe, reliable, are patient focused and meet the high standards that our patients expect day in, day out.”
CHKS director of research James Coles said: “These awards recognise outstanding performance in 21 areas which we believe are critical to delivering good patient care.”
The trust employs around 10,000 staff at The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, North Manchester General Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary and services at Birch Hill, also Rochdale.
Last year it spent over half a billion pounds on providing healthcare services, dealing with 306,602 A&E cases, 739,022 outpatients, 82,220 day cases and 128,675 inpatients.
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Nor does it say where in the top 40. 40th?
Fiancially perhaps... but say a patient complains about; environment (flooding bathroom / one curtain), social care (non-existant), professional care (doctors agreeing meetings and not turning up, going on holiday without cover) and long term care plans (non-existant) - they and their quango cronies - Health Care Commission as was and the Healthcare Ombudsman close ranks and take years to respond - and find that this was fully in line with procedures... Well done, just pray you dont fall ill..
Next year they should do even better. After all they will have at least 23 fewer hospital beds to manage! The trust employs around 10K staff. How many of these are involved with front line medicine & how many are just a***s on seats pushing reams of paper around? Half a billion pounds, that's £500,000,000! We should be able to do a lot with that sort of moola. Think how much we'd have to spend without the legions of interferers & hangers-on creaming off much needed resources.
PS Who are CHKS..?
.from their website.
Caspe Healthcare Knowledge Systems
Part of the Capita Group plc, the UK's leading independent provider of healthcare intelligence & quality improvement servs. Pioneers of the UK healthcare intelligence market with hospital benchmarking in 1989. Since then, developing a range of solutions for our 400+ healthcare clients.
Is this an impartial unbiased outfit running this charade? How much do PAT throw at them p.a. for 'intelligence'? When will it arrive? They sure need some!
Anything from Capita needs to be ignored. They effectively pillage public sector organisations for billions every year by providing exactly this sort of 'information'. Our trust is riddled with politics and box ticking thanks to the gross misapplication of public money under NuLabour. Care comes second as anyone who has been, as an example, to Oldham and Rochdale hospitals will know.
No one has ever asked me about my experiences, so how can any measure be accurate?
I hope they are genuinely 'up there' amongst the top performers. At least it would be some good news for Oldham but, as someone asked, 'out of how many'?
Reminds me of that old joke about the kid who tells his mum he came third in the class. 'Well, done!' says his mum. 'It's not that good' he replies, 'There are only two in the class'.
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Top 40, but out of how many?
By ammypam @ 19/05/2010 17:33:38