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About Us
Comparative
We recognise the importance of comparing our own performance with that of other hospital Trusts nationally and in particular our 'peers' (those hospitals who deliver similar types and complexity of services as ourselves).
We evaluate our own performance against similar organisations using data provided by a range of sources including CHKS (an independent benchmarking company), Dr Foster Intelligence, the National Audit Office, the Healthcare Commission and Audit Commission. By doing so we know that Newcastle is a consistently strong performer in national comparisons of the quality and safety of services. For example:
Dr Foster Intelligence
There are a number of independent benchmark assessments available today, one being the analysis by Dr Foster Intelligence. A range of measures are used to select the Dr Foster Trust of the Year including mortality rates, access to emergency care, patient satisfaction, waiting times and a range of clinical performance indicators. In April 2007, the Newcastle Hospitals Trust was named as one of the top five Trusts in the teaching hospitals category of Trust of the Year and was recognised as having one of the lowest standardised mortality ratios (mortality rates compared to our peers) in England.
CHKS Benchmarking Data
CHKS is an independent benchmarking company which enables us to seek external assurance on our own performance compared with that of our peers on a range of clinical and operational performance indicators. Working closely with CHKS and our clinical specialities we can identify where we are performing well alongside areas where clinical practice may be improved.
Each year CHKS examines the performance of all hospital Trusts involved in their Top 40 hospitals programme against 20 indicators. We were named as one of the top performing hospitals in 2007 for the eighth year running and were again shown to have one of the lowest mortality rates and to be using our resources more efficiently than other Trusts.
