Ramsay Health Care UK are celebrating after being named as a Gold National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider after successfully completing a national data quality audit programme for all 25 hospitals offering orthopaedic procedures. The hospitals that have achieved this are:
- Ashtead Hospital
- Clifton Park Hospital
- Duchy Hospital
- Euxton Hall Hospital
- Fitzwilliam Hospital
- Fulwood Hall Hospital
- Mount Stuart Hospital
- New Hall Hospital
- North Downs Hospital
- Oaklands Hospital
- Oaks Hospital
- Park Hill Hospital
- Pinehill Hospital
- Renacres Hall Hospital
- Rivers Hospital
- Rowley Hall Hospital
- Springfield Hospital
- Tees Valley Hospital
- The Berkshire Independent Hospital
- The Cherwell Hospital
- The Yorkshire Clinic
- West Midlands Hospital
- Winfield Hospital
- Woodthorpe Hospital
- Woodland Hospital
The NJR monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder joint replacement procedures to support work to improve the clinical outcomes for the benefit of patients, but also to provide feedback on surgical performance to orthopaedic clinicians and joint replacement implant manufacturers. The registry collects high quality orthopaedic data in order to support patient safety, standards in quality of care, and overall value in joint replacement surgery. The ‘NJR Quality Data Provider’ certificate scheme was introduced to offer hospitals a blueprint for reaching high quality standards relating to patient safety and to reward those who have met the registry’s high targets in the achievement of the quality of the data collected.
The NJR Data Quality Audit compares the number of joint replacement procedures submitted to the registry to the number carried out and recorded in the local hospital Patient Administration System. The audit ensures that the NJR is collecting and reporting upon the most complete, accurate data possible across all hospitals performing joint replacement operations, including Ramsay Health Care UK.
Commenting, Sue Harvey, Clinical Information and Outcomes Lead at Ramsay Health Care UK, said:
“Improving patient safety is of the upmost importance and something all staff across our hospitals take very seriously. We fully support the National Joint Registry’s work in facilitating improvement in clinical outcomes for the benefit of joint replacement patients and we’re delighted that every one of our hospitals have been awarded as an ‘NJR Quality Data Provider’ at a GOLD standard (100%)."
Medical Director of the National Joint Registry, Mr Tim Wilton, said:
“Congratulations to colleagues at Ramsay Health Care UK. As well as being a fundamental driver to inform improved quality of care for patients, registry data provides an important source of evidence for regulators, such as the Care Quality Commission, to inform their judgements about the quality of health services.”
The Quality Data Provider Award received by the team demonstrate the high standards being met towards ensuring compliance with the NJR and is a reflection of strong departmental efforts to achieve such status.
Full details about the NJR’s Quality Data Provider certificate scheme can be found online here. Read more about Ramsay Health Care's accreditations here.