Quality
Account
2012/2013
Contents
Introduction Page
Welcome to Ramsay Health Care UK and Bodmin NHS Centre
Introduction to our Quality Account
PART 1 – STATEMENT ON QUALITY
1.1
Statement from the General Manager
1.2
Hospital accountability statement
PART 2
2.1
Priorities for Improvement
2.1.1 Review of clinical priorities 2012/13 (looking back)
2.1.2 Clinical Priorities for 2013/14 (looking forward)
2.2
Mandatory statements relating to the quality of NHS services
provided
2.2.1 Review of Services
2.2.2 Participation in Clinical Audit
2.2.3 Participation in Research
2.2.4 Goals agreed with Commissioners
2.2.5 Statement from the Care Quality Commission
2.2.6 Statement on Data Quality
2.2.7 Stakeholders views on 2012/13 Quality Accounts
PART 3 – REVIEW OF QUALITY PERFORMANCE
3.1
Patient Safety
3.2
Clinical Effectiveness
3.3
Patient Experience
3.4
Case Study
Appendix 1 – Services Covered by this Quality Account
Appendix 2 – Clinical Audits
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Welcome to Ramsay Health Care UK
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre is part of the Ramsay
Health Care Group
The Ramsay Health Care Group was established in 1964 and has grown to
become a global hospital group operating over 100 hospitals and day surgery
facilities across Australia, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and France. Within the
UK, Ramsay Health Care is one of the leading providers of independent hospital
services in England, with a network of 22 acute hospitals.
We are also the largest private provider of surgical and diagnostics services to
the NHS in the UK. Through a variety of national and local contracts we deliver
1,000s of NHS patient episodes of care each month working seamlessly with
other healthcare providers in the locality including GPs, PCTs and acute Trusts.
“Ramsay Health Care UK is committed to establishing an organisational
culture that puts the patient at the centre of everything we do. As Chief
Executive of Ramsay Health Care UK, I am passionate about ensuring that
high quality patient care is at the centre of what we do and how we operate
all our facilities. This relies not only on excellent medical and clinical
leadership in our hospitals but also upon our overall continuing
commitment to drive year on year improvement in clinical outcomes.
“As a long standing and major provider of healthcare services across the
world, Ramsay has a very strong track record as a safe and responsible
healthcare provider and we are proud to share our results. Delivering
clinical excellence depends on everyone in the organisation. It is not about
reliance on one person or a small group of people to be responsible and
accountable for our performance.”
Across Ramsay we nurture the teamwork and professionalism on which
excellence in clinical practice depends. We value our people and with
every year we set our targets higher, working on every aspect of our
service to bring a continuing stream of improvements into our facilities and
services.
(Jill Watts, Chief Executive Officer of Ramsay Health Care UK)
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Introduction to our Quality Account
This Quality Account is Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s annual report to
the public and other stakeholders about the quality of the services we
provide. It presents our achievements in terms of clinical excellence,
effectiveness, safety and patient experience and demonstrates that our
managers, clinicians and staff are all committed to providing continuous,
evidence based, quality care to those people we treat. It will also show that
we regularly scrutinise every service we provide with a view to improving it
and ensuring that our patient’s treatment outcomes are the best they can
be. It will give a balanced view of what we are good at and what we need to
improve on.
In 2009/10 the Quality Account was developed by our Corporate Office and
summarised and reviewed quality activities across every hospital and
centre within the Ramsay Health Care UK. It was recognised, however, that
this didn’t provide enough in depth information for the public and
commissioners about the quality of services within each individual hospital
and how this relates to the local community it serves. Therefore, each site
within the Ramsay Group developed its own Quality Account for 2010/11
and this account for 2012/13 is Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s third
submission.
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Part 1
1.1 Statement on quality from the General
Manager Kathie Rimmer,
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
The Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre has been delivering high quality clinical
services to local residents for more than 7 years and as General Manager I
take great pride in the service we offer our patients.
This quality account has been produced to provide information about how
we monitor and evaluate the quality of the services we deliver. It has been
prepared in collaboration with every profession engaged in service
provision within the hospital. Every individual member of staff is crucial to
the success of our Treatment Centre and we value the contribution that
they make in delivering great customer care.
Our vision for our hospital includes a commitment to deliver health services
needed by the local population within the scope of safe clinical practice. It
also encompasses a commitment to deliver a patient experience that will
leave every patient feeling that everything that should have been done was
done to the standard they would expect.
The following pages set out our quality assurance policies and underline
our commitment to delivering the highest possible standard of service in
every circumstance.
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre has a very strong tract record as a safe and
responsible provider of healthcare and we are proud to share our results.
Kathie Rimmer
General Manager
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
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1.2 Hospital Accountability Statement
To the best of my knowledge, as requested by the regulations governing
the publication of this document, the information in this report is accurate.
Kathie Rimmer
General Manager
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
Ramsay Health Care UK
This report has been reviewed and approved by:
Mr Peter Callen MAC Chair
Dr Marek Woyton Clinical Governance Committee Chair
Helen White Regional Director, Ramsay Health Care UK
Steven Locke Head of Commissioning Kernow Clinical Commissioning
Group
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Welcome to Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
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Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre is a purpose built day unit built in
2005 to work in partnership with the NHS. It is equipped with 2
Theatres and a designated Endoscopy suite.
The Treatment Centre provides NHS services throughout Cornwall
and Devon. We provide fast, convenient, effective and high quality
treatment for patients above the age of 18 with the exception of
Termination of Pregnancy patients who can access our services from
the age of 16.
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s services include the specialities;
dermatology, ear, nose & throat (ENT), endoscopy, general surgery,
gynaecological, ophthalmic, maxillofacial/oral, urology and
orthopaedics.
Total number of patient admissions in the past year was almost 5000
Our clinical facilities are continually monitored to ensure that we are
offering the very best service to our patients.
We employ 39 Staff; 3 Employed Doctors, 14 Trained Nurses, one of
which also fulfills the role of Cosmetic Nurse, 6 Healthcare
assistants, 4 Housekeepers, 2 Counsellors, 1.5 Stores persons and 9
Admin staff. We also share an Accountant, Support Services
manager, Medical Secretary and Engineer with the Duchy hospital.
W have 21 Consultants with Practising Privileges, 6 with Medical
Service Agreements including 4 Ophthalmic Surgeons.
We receive our referrals from both the Referral Management Service
in Truro and Tamar Referral Appointment Centre in Devon.
Mrs Miranda Field is our GP liaison manager. Miranda has close
contact with both the practice managers and the GPs at our practices
throughout Cornwall. Miranda organises regular “Lunch and
Learns”, visiting GP surgeries to offer training and latest
development awareness as well as running evening GP training
seminars on a regular basis.
We work closely with the Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske who
provide us with blood transfusion, histology and access to critical
care services.
We have a good working relationship with our GPs and one local GP
sits on our Medical Advisory Committee.
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Our nominated charity for last year was the Cornwall air
ambulance service and we raised over £300. We will continue to
support this important Charity this year.
• We advertise our services in the local press and local Radio.
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Part 2
2.1 Quality priorities for 2012/2013
Plan for 2012/2013
On an annual cycle, Bodmin NHS Treatment centre develops an operational
plan to set objectives for the year ahead.
Our aim is to deliver a high quality and variety of services for the local
people of Cornwall, so they can access healthcare nearer to home.
We have a clear commitment to our patients as well as working in
partnership with the NHS ensuring that those services commissioned to us,
result in safe, quality treatment for all NHS patients whilst they are in our
care. We constantly strive to improve clinical safety and standards by a
systematic process of governance including audit and feedback from all
those experiencing our services.
To meet these aims, we have various initiatives ongoing at any one time.
The priorities are determined by the hospitals Senior Management Team
taking into account patient feedback, audit results, national guidance, and
the recommendations from various hospital committees which represent all
professional and management levels.
Most importantly, we believe our priorities must drive patient safety, clinical
effectiveness and improve the experience of all people visiting our hospital.
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Priorities for improvement
2.1.1. A review of clinical priorities 2011/12
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Surgical safety checklist – compliance to the checklist is an ongoing
quality initiative at Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre. All the medical and
clinical staff have been involved in achieving this aim and we have
worked with both our Corporate Clinical team and our local Trust to
share training packages and audit tools. Specific checklists for cataract
surgery, LA Surgery and Endoscopy have been introduced to further
reduce the risk of wrong site surgery/procedure.
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Venous-thromboembolism assessment - (VTE) is a significant patient
safety issue. Bodmin Treatment Centre has established a robust policy
to comply with NICE guidelines in order to reduce avoidable death,
disability and chronic ill health from VTE. The Treatment Centre has an
excellent VTE risk assessment compliance record. The results for the
past 12 months are all above the target 90%.
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Never events - preventative measures have been implemented and there
have not been any “Never event” incidents in this reporting year at
Bodmin Treatment Centre.
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Cleanliness - further infection prevention and control audits were
introduced as planned and Bodmin Treatment Centre’s results have all
been above 95% Audits include Hand Hygiene 99%, Peripheral IV
cannula care bundle 98%, Care bundle to prevent Surgical site infection
100%, Infection Prevention & Control Environmental audit 100%.
There have been no MRSA bacteraemia or C Difficile infections at
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre.
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Meeting endoscopy standards – Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
achieved JAG accreditation in 2009 and the appointed endoscopy lead
and staff involved in endoscopy continuously submit data in line with
the GRS initiative for endoscopy.
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The Productive ward – although Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre does
not have a ward we have adopted some of the principles of the
productive ward in our outpatient and theatre departments in order to
improve efficiency processes and enable the nurses to spend more time
with the patient.
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Information Security – in 2011 Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre achieved
the information security accreditation IS0270001. The process of raising
awareness of the importance of data protection and information security
has been very successful and fully embraced by the staff at Bodmin
NHS Treatment Centre.
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Real Time incident reporting – In 2012 Ramsay invested in a new Risk
Management reporting system called RISKMAN and this has been
successfully installed at Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre enabling staff to
achieve real time reporting.
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Competency training – ensuring safe, competent staff are available to
care for patients is a high priority at Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre.
Training is provided to support staff achieve their critical care
competencies, ILS and ALS. We have also introduced AIM (Acute
Illness Management) training for all clinical staff. Similar to the critical
care competencies there is a robust competency framework for the staff
involved in the administration of blood transfusion. All staff at Bodmin
NHS Treatment Centre are required to achieve competency in blood
transfusion administration before they can be involved in any aspect of
a blood transfusion or handle blood products.
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Vulnerable adult, Deprivation of Liberty and Child protection – the
Treatment Centre takes its responsibility for safeguarding vulnerable
members of society seriously and all staff working within the hospital
are required to have a standard or, in the case of those with patient
contact, an enhanced CRB check. Equality, diversity and human rights
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are an essential part of our training programme. Ramsay HealthCare’s
integrated governance framework, Group policies and practice comply
with current legislation. In addition to in house training on Equality,
Human Rights, Workplace Diversity, Vulnerable adult care, Deprivation
of Liberty and Child Protection training we have also accessed external
safeguarding training with the local council to improve staff awareness
of safeguarding policy and procedure.
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Staff Satisfaction - our staff satisfaction results are very important to us
as satisfied, well trained and competent staff will ensure patient safety
risks are reduced. The staff satisfaction survey is done annually and
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s results for 2012/13 show an
improvement on the 2011/ 2012 results.
2.1.2 Clinical Priorities for 2012/13
Patient safety
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Surgical safety checklist – compliance to the checklist will remain an
ongoing quality initiative at Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre. Compliance
to the surgical safety checklist will be audited and the results submitted
as a locally agreed quality indicator to Kernow Clinical Commissioning
Group.
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Venous-thromboembolism assessment – will remain an ongoing quality
initiative and we will continue to audit our compliance to risk
assessment and appropriate prophylaxis. Audit results will be submitted
as one of our quality indicators.
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Never events - preventing the occurrence of any serious, largely
preventable patient safety incidents that should not occur will remain a
clinical priority for 2012/13.
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Joint Advisory Group for GI endoscopy – maintaining the Treatment
Centre’s JAG accreditation is an ongoing quality initiative. The
Treatment Centre’s lead nurse in endoscopy will also be supporting the
team at the Duchy Hospital and Mt Stuart Hospital in Devon with training
and advice in their bid to achieve JAG accreditation.
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Real Time incident reporting – The implementation of Riskman allows
staff to report incidents and patient feedback in real time, producing
reports for clinical governance and quality.
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Clinical training – Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre will continue to ensure
that patients are cared for by safe and competent staff. Providing
quality care for patients is a high priority at the Treatment Centre and all
relevant clinical staff will be supported through training and protected
time to achieve competency level education. This year the staff have
undertaken competency based training in “recognising the signs of the
deteriorating patient” based on early warning scoring and trigger tools.
The critical care training remains competency based and all staff are
expected to achieve competencies in infection prevention and control
which includes hand hygiene. ILS and/or ALS training is mandatory for
all clinical staff working in acute areas and this year we are also
providing AIM (Acute Illness Management) training.
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Blood transfusion competencies – in line with patient safety we will
ensure that blood transfusions or blood products are only
handled/administered by competent trained staff.
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Safeguarding – Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre takes its responsibility
for safeguarding vulnerable members of society seriously. We provide
in house training and contact numbers for help and advice are available
throughout the Treatment Centre. All staff working within the Treatment
Centre are required to have a standard or, in the case of those with
patient contact, an enhanced CRB check. Equality, diversity and human
rights are a theme running through Ramsay Health Care. The
organisations integrated governance framework, Group policies and
practice comply with current legislation. To date there have not been
any safeguarding incidents to report at Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre,
however, to maintain staff awareness and give them an insight into the
knowledge of the work of external agencies we are accessing local
authority training for relevant staff.
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Staffing – to ensure that adequate numbers of skilled staff are available
to care for our patients staff rotas are prepared in advance. Patient
dependency tools are used daily and all departments in the Treatment
Centre have their own bank of staff to provide additional cover as
required. This year Ramsay have invested in an electronic rostering
system called Allocate. The system will reduce the time spent on
producing numerous rotas throughout the hospitals and will be
accessible to all staff so they can log in and make requests for leave,
training etc. It is also designed to record training hours and remind staff
when they need to attend mandatory training sessions. The system will
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be set to produce rotas in line with patient numbers and specific skill
mix requirements.
Clinical Effectiveness
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Ambulatory Day Care – better outcomes and improving patient
experience. Ambulatory day care is the admission of selected patients
to hospital for a planned procedure, returning home the same day. Over
recent years, partly due to medical advances, the number of day surgery
patients has increased compared to those patients requiring inpatient
care. Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre is a purpose built day case facility
which has adopted efficient patient pathways with an average length of
stay of 2.28 hours. Best practice has shown that by caring for short stay
patients in a day care facility, as opposed to a traditional ward, patient
care will improve as the waiting time and recovery period are reduced.
We continue to monitor this through amended coding, reports from our
patient information system and through patient satisfaction indices.
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Pre assessment - Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre is a day case facility
and we screen all patients prior to admission to identify the level of care
they will require during their stay. Some are deemed too complex for
treatment at this site and are referred to a more appropriate facility to
meet their needs. Others are admitted with their level of care already
defined and the necessary skilled staff, equipment and facilities
available for them. Pre assessing patients at the start of their pathway is
performed by highly skilled staff and conducted by either telephone
assessment or a face to face examination. Correctly assessing our
patient’s needs is an ongoing quality imitative for Bodmin NHS
Treatment Centre.
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Improve National benchmarking – it was recognised that we needed
more transparency between ourselves and other independent sector
providers/the NHS in order to monitor and improve our services. This is
even more important now we are working in partnership with the NHS.
We will be benchmarking in the following areas;
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Hellenic – will provide national benchmark figures for key performance
indicators(activity/volumes, mortality, day case rates, unplanned
readmissions, average length of stay, unplanned transfers,
reoperations, etc)
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VTE risk assessment compliance – benchmarking through the national
stats website. Link;
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/Publicat
ionsStatistics/DH122283
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PROMS results – benchmarking through national PROMS website. Link:
http://www.hesonline.nhs.uk/Ease/servlet/ContentServer/siteID=1937&ca
tegoryID-1295
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Patient satisfaction figures – Bodmin’s patient satisfaction surveys are
managed by an independent company. Our results remain consistently
above 96% and Bodmin is presently second in the Ramsay group of
hospitals.
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For 2013 Ramsay units will also participate in the Friends and Family
survey in order that we can be benchmarked with other providers.
Patient experience
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Patient reported outcome studies (PROMS) – we participate in the
national PROMS data collection for Hernia surgery. The results, when
available, will be reviewed by the Medical Advisory Committee and
Clinical Governance Committee.
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Friends and Family Survey – this year as one of our locally agreed
quality indicators Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre will be using this
survey to benchmark how our patients would recommend us to friends
and family. Our latest results for April 13 show that 98% of our patients
would definitely recommend Bodmin Treatment Centre to their friends
and family.
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Patient satisfaction survey – Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s patient
survey is consistently over 96%. The most recent achieving 97% with
100% of patients recommending Bodmin Treatment Centre. If we fall
short of any patients’ expectations and receive any poor results an
action plan is completed and discussed at our Customer Focus Group
to enable an improvement in the patient experience.
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The results from the question “Overall how would you rate the care you
received?”
2.2 Mandatory statements
2.2.1 Review of Services
During 2012/2013 Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre has offered 8 different
services.
The Treatment Centre has reviewed all the data available to them on the
quality of care in 100% of these NHS services.
Ramsay uses a balanced scorecard approach to give an overview of audit
results across the critical areas of patient care. The indicators on the
Ramsay scorecard are reviewed each year. The scorecard is reviewed each
quarter by the hospitals Senior Managers together with Regional and
Corporate Managers. The balanced scorecard approach has been an
extremely successful tool in helping us benchmark against other hospitals
and identifying key areas for improvement.
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In the period for 2012/13, the indicators on the scorecard which affect
patient safety and quality were:
Human Resources
Total Lost Worked Days 2,598 (24%) – (includes all annual leave, training
and sickness)
Appraisal 87%
Mandatory Training 79%
Number of significant staff injuries - none
Agency Hours as % of Total Hours – 0.0%
HCA Hours 27% of Total Nursing
Patient
Formal Complaints per 1000 HPD's – 0.05%
Patient Satisfaction Score 96.8%
Number of Significant Clinical Events - 0
Readmission per 1000 Admissions – 0
Quality
Workplace Health & Safety 93%
Infection Control Audit Score 98%
2.2.2 Participation in National clinical audit
Bodmin Treatment Centre does not participate in any of the National
Clinical audits as they are not applicable to the services provided.
Local Audits
The reports of all local audits which include; Anaesthetics, Medical
records, Consent, Discharge, Care Pathways & Variance tracking,
Medicines Management, Controlled drugs, Environmental, Termination of
Pregnancy, Colposcopy, JAG & GRS and 9 infection prevention & control
audits from 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 were reviewed by the Clinical
Governance Committee and hospital’s MAC.
All audit results showed an excellent degree of compliance and our main
priority for 2013/14 will be ensuring standards of documentation are met
with regard to discharge of patients. This is in line with the requirements of
the National Standard Acute Contract for NHS services.
The clinical audit schedule can be found in Appendix 2.
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2.2.3 Participation in Research
There were no patients recruited during 2011/12 to participate in research
approved by a research ethics committee. Recently, however, we have met
with the Peninsula Comprehensive Clinical Research Network in order to
provide access for patients, accessing NHS care through non NHS
providers such as Bodmin Treatment Centre, to participate in research if
they wish to.
2.2.4 Goals agreed with our Commissioners using the CQUIN
(Commissioning for Quality and Innovation) Framework
A proportion of Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre income from October 1st
2012 to 31st March 2013 was conditional on achieving quality improvement
and innovation goals, through the Commissioning for Quality and
Innovation payment framework.
2.2.5 Statements from the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Bodmin NHS Treatment centre is required to register with the Care Quality
Commission and its current registration status on 31st March is registered
without conditions. The Care Quality Commission has not taken any
enforcement action against Bodmin NHS Treatment centre during 2012/
2013.
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre has not participated in any special reviews
or investigations by the CQC during the reporting period.
On the most recent CQC inspection on 11th March 2013 Bodmin NHS
Treatment centre was inspected on outcomes 1, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14 & 16 and
found to be fully compliant.
2.2.6 Data Quality
We regularly use statistical data to monitor clinical services- we are
constantly striving to improve this data by regular quality control initiatives.
Data contained in medical records are audited on a monthly basis and
actions taken to improve quality as appropriate.
The hospital has a data quality super user who manages the SUS pathway
processes and continually reviews administration functions to ensure data
quality.
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NHS Number and General Medical Practice Code Validity
The Ramsay Group submitted records during 2010/11 to the Secondary
Users Service for inclusion in the Hospital Episode Statistics which are
included in the latest published data. The percentage of records in the
published data included:
The patient’s valid NHS number:
• 99.98% for admitted care
• 99.95% for outpatient care
• 0% for accident and emergency care (not undertaken at Ramsay
hospitals)
The General Medical Practice Code:
• 99.99% for admitted care
• 99.99%for outpatient care
• 0% for accident and emergency care (not undertaken at Ramsay
hospitals
Information Governance Toolkit attainment levels
Ramsay Group Information Governance assessment report score overall for
2012/13 was 77% and was graded “green” (satisfactory)
This information is publically available on the DH Information Governance
Toolkit website at: https://www.igt.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre will be taking the following actions to
improve data quality.
• Consultants have been given training documentation and are aware
of the corporate policy for record keeping in clinical records
• Monthly medical record keeping audits are completed; results and
actions required are discussed with the relevant consultants.
• Bi annual anaesthetic standards audits are completed, results and
actions required are discussed with the relevant Consultants.
• Coding take place from the medical records, a procedure coding form
is completed within the patient record throughout the patient journey.
Clinical coding error rate
Bodmin NHS Treatment centre was subject to the Payment by Results
clinical coding audit during 2010/11. Ramsay now employs a Clinical coder
who audits each Ramsay unit. Our last audit carried out In March 2013
Showed 95% correct coding.
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2.2.7 Stakeholders views on 2012/13 Quality
Account
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre Quality Accounts were presented to the
Professional Executive Committee on the 21st May 2013
Statement from Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group for Bodmin Treatment
Centre Quality Account 2012/13
Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group is pleased to have the opportunity to
comment on the Quality Account 2012/13 for Bodmin Treatment Centre (BTC) and
welcomes the approach the Centre has shown in developing and setting out its plans
for quality improvement. There are routine processes in place with BTC to agree,
monitor and review the quality of services throughout the year covering the key
quality domains of safety, effectiveness and experience of care.
We have reviewed and can confirm the information presented in the Quality Account
appears to be accurate and fairly interpreted, from the data collected.
The Quality Account presents an overview of a range of quality improvement work
being undertaken. We note the continued high patient satisfaction and patient
reported outcome measures, and note the achievements at the centre in the past
year, such as achieving JAG accreditation for endoscopy and information security
accreditation.
We are pleased to see that the priorities chosen for 2013/14 have been identified
with key stakeholder involvement; we are pleased to see continued emphasis on
patient safety, both through the surgical safety checklist, the prevention of never
events and Venous-thromboembilism assessment.
We would like to see further work on ensuring that readmission rates across
providers are accurately recorded.
Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group looks forward to working with the Treatment
Centre throughout the year to achieve more efficient pathways delivering high quality
services to patients.
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Part 3: Review of quality performance
2012/2013
Statements of quality delivery
Matron, Jacqueline Doane
Review of quality performance 1st April 2012 – 31st
March 2013
Introduction
“Our overriding commitment is to provide safe and effective care; the
guiding principle is to put our patient’s interests first and key to this is our
capacity to listen, be responsive and to act on their feedback. We already
take patient views and ratings into account in any assessment of our
performance but now we will increasingly draw on effective real-time
information and this includes on-line patient surveys. Added to which there
are more opportunities to use new measures of quality of care and patient
safety and be able to make a difference to improvements in future practice.
Importantly these new metrics should ensure performance which needs
improving, can be quickly identified and fixed.”
(Jane Cameron, Director of safety and Clinical Performance,
Ramsay Health Care UK)
Ramsay Clinical Governance Framework 2012
The aim of clinical governance is to ensure that Ramsay develop ways of
working which assure that the quality of patient care is central to the
business of the organisation.
The emphasis is on providing an environment and culture to support
continuous clinical quality improvement so that patients receive safe and
effective care, clinicians are enabled to provide that care, and the
organisation can satisfy itself that we are doing the right things in the right
way.
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It is important that Clinical Governance is integrated into other governance
systems in the organisation and should not be seen as a “stand-alone”
activity. All management systems, clinical, financial, estates etc, are interdependent with actions in one area impacting on others.
Several models have been devised to include all the elements of Clinical
Governance to provide a framework for ensuring that it is embedded,
implemented and can be monitored in an organisation. In developing this
framework for Ramsay Health Care UK we have gone back to the original
Scally and Donaldson paper (1998) as we believe that it is a model that
allows coverage and inclusion of all the necessary strategies, policies,
systems and processes for effective Clinical Governance. The domains of
this model are:
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Infrastructure
Culture
Quality methods
Poor performance
Risk avoidance
Coherence
Ramsay Health Care Clinical Governance Framework
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NICE / NPSA guidance
Ramsay also complies with the recommendations contained in technology
appraisals issued by the National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence (NICE) and Safety Alerts as issued by the National Patient Safety
Agency (NPSA)
Ramsay has systems in place for scrutinising all national clinical guidance
and selecting those that are applicable to our business and thereafter
monitoring their implementation.
3.1 Patient safety
We are a progressive hospital and focussed on stretching our performance
every year and in all performance respects, and certainly in regards to our
track record for patient safety.
Risks to patient safety come to light through a number of routes including
routine audit, complaints, litigation, adverse incident reporting and raising
concerns but more routinely from tracking trends in performance
indicators.
Our focus on patient safety has resulted in a marked improvement in a
number of key indicators as illustrated in the graphs below.
3.1.1 Infection prevention and control
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre has a very low rate of hospital acquired
infection and has had no reported MRSA Bacteraemia in the past 7 years
We comply with mandatory reporting of all Alert organisms including
MSSA/MRSA Bacteraemia and Clostridium Difficile infections with a
programme to reduce incidents year on year.
Infection Prevention and Control management is very active within our
hospital. An annual strategy is developed by a corporate level Infection
Prevention and Control (IPC) Committee, and group policy is revised and
re-deployed every two years. Our IPC programmes are designed to bring
about improvements in performance and in practice year on year.
A network of specialist nurses and infection control link nurses operate
across the Ramsay organisation to support good networking and clinical
practice.
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Programmes and activities within our hospital include:
All staff (clinical and non-clinical) have undertaken the corporate elearning training package for Infection Control. In addition they attend an
annual in house training session which includes practical training in Hand
Hygiene using the UV light. The infection control nurses have also done
similar sessions at hospital open days and at off site marketing events to
promote hand hygiene awareness.
Emphasis on cleanliness has resulted in an operational cleaning matrix
with cleaning records available in each department. Green stickers are now
used in clinical areas, to show when equipment has been cleaned and by
whom. This has resulted in an improved audit trail.
Hand hygiene remains a focus area for 2012/13. The appropriate use of
alcohol gel/foam and hand washing is vital for preventing the spread of
infection and is the responsibility of everyone.
We focus on the World Health Organisation’s 5 moments when hand
hygiene has to take place and plan to involve our patients in auditing
compliance to this.
Environmental audits have been commenced this year which aim to ensure
a safe environment for all staff and patients.
Bodmin NHS Treatment centre has only had 1 known Hospital Acquired
infection in the last 6 years.
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3.1.2 Cleanliness and hospital hygiene
We continue to assess the hospitals facilities to ensure that we are
providing a safe environment and use the following audit tools:
Corporate - Environmental Audit – Quarterly
Patient Led Assessment of care of the environment (PLACE) has been
introduced and the first inspection took place on 24th April 2013, with
excellent results. This will continue to take place annually
Corporate - Health, Safety & Facilities Audit – Annually
We have a cleaning matrix for each department, this was implemented in
March 2011. This indicates the items to be cleaned, the frequency and the
cleaning materials to be used; we will use this as evidence when we
complete the quarterly environmental audits.
Environmental Audit
This audit was introduced in 2010, these are completed quarterly, the aim of
this audit is to ensure a safe environment for all staff and patients, the
objectives are:
1. To identify users and user groups
2. To advise on infection control issues arising
3. To acknowledge
The audit consists of an inspection of the hospitals clinical areas and
includes the general environment, clinical equipment, decontamination,
clinical practices, sharps handling, waste disposal and hand washing.
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s Environmental audit results were 99% in
2012 and 99% in 2013
We continue to focus on delivering a high standard of cleanliness and
ensure that staff are informed and updated at our mandatory training study
days as well as discussing the points raised at our bi-monthly Risk
Management meetings.
Health, Safety & Facilities Audit
This audit, taken from Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPS) was introduced
in 2009 and is completed annually. The standards are the minimum that an
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organisation must adhere to ensuring a safe workplace. The benchmark set
for 2010 was 90% and this has been raised to 95% for 2012.
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s results for 2012/2013 - 95%
3.1.3 Safety in the workplace
Safety hazards in hospitals are diverse ranging from the risk of slip, trip or
fall to incidents around sharps and needles. As a result, ensuring our staff
have high awareness of safety has been a foundation for our overall risk
management programme and this awareness then naturally extends to
safeguarding patient safety.
Effective and ongoing communication of key safety messages is important
in healthcare. Multiple updates relating to drugs and equipment are
received every month and these are sent in a timely way via an electronic
system called the Ramsay Central Alert System (CAS). Safety alerts,
medicine / device recalls and new and revised policies are cascaded in this
way to our General Manager which ensures we keep up to date with all
safety issues.
3.2 Clinical effectiveness
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre has a Clinical Governance team and
Committee that meet regularly through the year to monitor quality and
effectiveness of care. Clinical incidents, patient and staff feedback are
systematically reviewed to determine any trend that requires further
analysis or investigation. More importantly, recommendations for action
and improvement are presented to hospital management and medical
advisory committees to ensure results are visible and tied into actions
required by the organisation as a whole.
3.2.1 Return to theatre
Ramsay is treating significantly higher numbers of patients every year as
our services grow. The majority of our patients undergo planned surgical
procedures and so monitoring numbers of patients that require a return to
theatre for supplementary treatment is an important measure. Every
surgical intervention carries a risk of complication so some incidence of
returns to theatre is normal. The value of the measurement is to detect
trends that emerge in relation to a specific operation or specific surgical
team. Ramsay’s rate of return is very low consistent with our track record of
successful clinical outcomes.
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There have been no returns to theatre at Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
in the last 6 years.
3.2.2 Readmission to hospital
Monitoring rates of readmission to hospital is another valuable measure of
clinical effectiveness. As with return to theatre, any emerging trend with
specific surgical operation or surgical team in common may identify
contributory factors to be addressed. Ramsay rates of readmission remain
very low and this, in part, is due to sound clinical practice ensuring patients
are not discharged home too early after treatment and are independently
mobile, not in severe pain etc.
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre has had no readmissions to the unit in
2012/2013
3.3 Patient experience
All feedback from patients regarding their experiences with Ramsay Health
Care are welcomed and inform service development in various ways
dependent on the type of experience (both positive and negative) and
action required to address them.
All positive feedback is relayed to the relevant staff to reinforce good
practice and behaviour – letters and cards are displayed for staff to see in
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staff rooms and notice boards. Managers ensure that positive feedback
from patients is recognised and any individuals mentioned are praised
accordingly.
All negative feedback or suggestions for improvement are also feedback to
the relevant staff using direct feedback. All staff are aware of our
complaints procedures should our patients be unhappy with any aspect of
their care.
Patient experiences are fed back via the various methods below, and are
regular agenda items on Local Governance Committtees for discussion,
trend analysis and further action where necesary. Escalation and further
reporting to Ramsay Corporate and DH bodies occurs as required and
according to Ramsay and DH policy.
Feedback regarding the patient’s experience is encouraged in various ways
via:
ƒ Patient satisfaction surveys
ƒ ‘We value your opinion’ leaflet
ƒ Verbal feedback to Ramsay staff - including Consultants,
Matrons/General Managers whilst visiting patients and Provider/CQC
visit feedback.
ƒ Written feedback via letters/emails
ƒ Friends and family survey.
ƒ Patient focus groups
ƒ PROMs surveys
ƒ Care pathways – patient are encouraged to read and participate in their
plan of care
3.3.1 Patient Satisfaction Surveys
Our patient satisfaction surveys were managed by an independent
company called ‘The Leadership Factor‘TLF) until earlier this year when we
moved to a web based survey managed by Qa Research.
Results are produced quarterly (the data is shown as an overall figure but
also separately for NHS and private patients). The results are available for
patients to view on our website.
Patient satisfaction scores for overall quality show the majority of patients
feel they receive excellent quality of care and service in Bodmin NHS
Treatment Centre hospital. To record a satisfaction index over 95%, a very
high proportion of our patients have scored 9 or 10 out of 10 for their
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satisfaction with all the requirements. This is underlined by comparing our
hospitals Satisfaction Index against those achieved by other organisations
across all sectors of the UK economy where the full range of customer
satisfaction is 50% to 95% with the median just below 80%.
Our latest patient survey score was 96.8% which puts Bodmin second in the
group of Ramsay hospitals.
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre’s scores, which show year on year
improvement, rates the centre in the top 2-3% of organisations.
We still have areas which we need to improve on such as “having your
treatment discussed with you”. We are always looking to improve on any
areas.
3.3.2 Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre participates in the Department of Health’s
PROMs surveys for hernia surgery but due to the small numbers submitted
we are unable to provide data at this point.
Website to access your PROMs scores:
http://www.hesonline.nhs.uk/Ease/servlet/ContentServer?siteID=1937&cate
goryID=1295
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. Appendix 1
Services covered by this quality account
Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
The Treatment Centre opened in January 2006 and is one of
ten centres across the UK where Ramsay is working in
partnership with the NHS. Ramsay’s reputation is built on high
standards of in patient care in the private sector. Our aim is to
combine this experience of providing quality healthcare with
that of our NHS partners.
Bodmin Treatment Centre, Boundary Road, Bodmin, Cornwall
PL312QT
Tel: 01208 262520
Registered Manager: Kathie Rimmer
Kathie.rimmer@ramsayhealth.co.uk
Services Provided
Treatment of
Disease,
Disorder
Or injury
Surgical
Procedures
Out patient services Cosmetic, Dermatological,
Gastroenterology, Gynaecology, General surgery,
Maxillofacial / oral, Ophthalmic, Orthopaedic. ENT
Ambulatory and Day Surgery, Cosmetic, Dermatological,
Gastroenterology, Gynaecology General surgery,
Maxillofacial / oral, Ophthalmic, Orthopaedic. ENT
,Urology
Peoples Needs Met for:
All adults 18 yrs and over
All young person’s age 16-18yrs consultation for
termination of pregnancy procedures only
.
All young person’s age 16-18yrs for termination of
pregnancy procedures only
All adults 18yrs and over excluding:
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Patients with blood disorders (haemophilia,
sickle cell, thalassaemia)
Patients on renal dialysis
Patients with history of malignant hyperpyrexia
Planned surgery patients with positive MRSA
screen are deferred until negative
Patients who are likely to need ventilatory
support post operatively
Patients who are above a stable ASA 3.
Any patient who will require planned admission
to ITU post surgery
Dyspnoea grade 3/4 (marked dyspnoea on mild
exertion e.g. from kitchen to bathroom or
dyspnoea at rest)
Poorly controlled asthma (needing oral steroids
or has had frequent hospital admissions within
last 3 months)
MI in last 6 months
Angina classification 3/4 (limitations on normal
activity e.g. 1 flight of stairs or angina at rest)
CVA in last 6 months
However, all patients will be individually assessed and we
will only exclude patients if we are unable to provide an
appropriate and safe clinical environment.
All patients must meet social/clinical criteria for day
surgery.
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Appendix 2
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Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre
Ramsay Health Care UK
We would welcome any comments on the format,
content or purpose of this Quality Account.
If you would like to comment or make any
suggestions for the content of future reports,
please telephone or write to the General Manager
using the contact details below.
For further information please contact:
01208 262520
www.bodmintreatmentcentre.co.uk
Neurological Centres
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