Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13 - Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital

44 2. Core Indicators
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
Quality Report 2012/13
Core Indicators
Indicator
Group
Core
Indicators
Indicator Description Data The Royal Devon
and Exeter NHS
Foundation Trust
considers that this
data/percentage is
as described for the
following reasons
12. The data made
available to the National
Health Service Trust or
NHS Foundation Trust
by the Health and Social
Care Information Centre
with regard to –
(a) the value and
banding of the
summary hospitallevel
mortality
indicator (“SHMI”)
for the Trust for the
reporting period;
and
(b) the percentage of
patient deaths with
palliative care coded
at either diagnosis
or specialty level
for the Trust for
the reporting
period.
SHMI - 0.8993 (as expected)
(11 Trusts higher than expected, 115 as
expected and 16 lower than expected)
Palliative Coding 0.3% (National
18.4%)
April 2011 - March 2012:
SHMI - 0.8797 (lower than expected)
(10 Trusts higher than expected, 116 as
expected and 16 lower than expected)
Palliative Coding 0.2% (National
17.9%)
January 2011 - December 2011:
SHMI - 0.8663 (lower than expected)
(10 Trusts higher than expected, 117 as
expected and 16 lower than expected)
Palliative Coding 0.4% (National
17.2%)
1. There is a 9 month
cross over between
each reporting period.
2. As the Trust does
not have palliative care
consultants this number
is higher than Trusts
that do. 3. The number
is increasing very
slightly, however with
the significant cross
over in time periods
this makes it difficult
to draw any useful
conclusion.
The Royal Devon
and Exeter NHS
Foundation Trust
intends to take/has
taken the following
actions to improve the
indicator (percentage/
proportion), and so the
quality of its services
The Trust will continue
to monitor this data
quarterly.