Clinical Quality

Below are a series of reports containing analysis of some key measures of the quality of care for patients with conditions of public health importance. The reports include analyses of routine and latest available data from various sources. The main reports provide baseline data for a new indicator set. Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) which are outliers will need to understand whether the data are an accurate reflection of current activity and outcomes and whether the situation is improving, deteriorating or staying the same. Further investigation of the quality of care of patients with cancer may be warranted to determine whether there is a significant problem in the quality of the care they commission.

The work also includes updates of benchmark reports to support local commissioners and providers to improve the quality of local care by identifying significant quality issues in the clinical care, and prevention of common conditions, that can be revealed from existing routine data.

Below are resources relating to clinical quality which have been organised at both a regional and national level.

Key resources

Commissioning - Clinical quality - South East Coast Regional key resources

Date	Title	Format	View
17 Mar 2010	Clinical Standards Inidicators in South East Coast - Report 6: Cancer Part 1
17 Mar 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South East Coast - Report 7: Cancer Part 2
Sep 2008	Clinical Standards Indicators in South East Coast - Report 1: Diabetes mellitus
Sep 2008	Clinical Standards Indicators in South East Coast - Report 2: Stroke
Dec 2008	Clinical Standards Indicators in South East Coast - Report 3: Coronary Heart Disease
Jul 2009	Clinical Standards Indicators in South East Coast - Report 4: Mental Health
Jul 2009	Clinical Standards Indicators in South East Coast - Report 5: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Aug 2009	Knowledge matters - August 2009

Commissioning – Clinical Quality - South Central – Developed and hosted for South Central Quality Observatory

Date	Title	Format	View
16 Nov 2010	Benchmarking quality of care for fragility fractures in the South Central SHA area
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Refresh Report 1: Cardiovascular Disease
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Refresh Report 2: Diabetes mellitus
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Refresh Report 3: Cerebrovascular Disease
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Refresh Report 4: Cancer
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Refresh Report 5: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Report 1: Diabetes mellitus
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Report 2: Cerebrovascular Disease
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Report 3: Cardiovascular Disease
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Report 4: Cancer - part 1
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Report 5: Cancer - part 2
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Report 6: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
19 Oct 2010	Clinical Standards Indicators in South Central - Report 7: Mental Health

Commissioning - Clinical quality - National key resources

Date	Title	Format	View
	National Clinical Audits
2009	The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009/10
	Living well with dementia: A National Dementia Strategy (DH)
	High quality care for all: NHS Next Stage Review report (DH)
	Indicators for Quality Improvement
2008	How the NHS manages heart attacks - Public report 2008
2008	National Sentinel Stroke Audit 2008
2006	Burden of Lung Disease - A Statistics report from the British Thoracic Society 2006

Last review Nov 2009.