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| Nadine Boczkowski, AQ Programme Director |
The AQ programme, which was founded in 2008, supports partners to improve the consistency and quality of clinical care across a number of Clinical Focus Areas (CFAs) such as; Acute Kidney Injury, Hip and Knee Replacement, Sepsis and Early Intervention Psychosis.
For each of these areas, a set of core quality measures are identified and agreed by local clinical experts across the region, aligned to national standard guidelines. Working to ensure every eligible patient receives the standard care every time, according to each measure has proven to positively impact outcomes; not only helping to save lives but reduce re-admissions, complications and length of hospital stay.
Nadine Boczkowski, Director for the AQ Programme said:
“We know that people’s health in the North West is generally worse than the England average. In part this is due to the high levels of deprivation seen across the region compared to other areas of England. The AQ programme provides an approach to measure and evidence base the delivery of consistent quality practices in prevalent conditions across the North West.
“Although there has been decline in results in some areas, impacted by changes to measure definitions and thresholds, it is encouraging to see such positive and increasing results in critical areas such as sepsis, AMI and Diabetes . The ongoing commitment of member organisations and their staff to continuously improve and sustain the quality of clinical care is unfounded. 2015/16 continued to identify and spread the scope and scale of best practice by coming together as a collaborative community, sharing knowledge and learning to drive innovation and improvement.’’
The results, which are featured in full on www.advancingqualitynw.nhs.uk can be viewed by hospital or locality. Hospitals included in the published results are commissioned to participate in the programme as part of their local contracts. Some participating organisation’s data may not be published if they do not meet the data quality / completeness threshold for public reporting.
The Clinical Focus Areas included in the 2015/16 results are:
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Alcohol Related Liver Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Heart Attack
- Heart Bypass
- Heart Failure
- Hip Fracture
- Hip or Knee Replacement Surgery
- Pneumonia
- Psychosis
- Sepsis
The Trusts with 2015/16 results being published today are:
Acute Trusts
- Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- East Cheshire NHS Trust
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
- Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
- St Helen’s and Knowsley Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health and Care Trusts
- 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Independent sector providers
- BMI Healthcare - The Alexandra Hospital
- Ramsay Healthcare UK - Euxton Hall Hospital
- Ramsay Healthcare UK - Fulwood Hall Hospital
- Ramsay Healthcare UK - Renacres Hospital
