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Participation in Clinical Research
The number of patients receiving NHS services
provided by Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust that were recruited during that
period to participate in research by a research
ethics committee was 2,863.
This demonstrates our continued improvement
in this area over the last four years as we work
towards our aim that every child and young person
treated at the hospital is either offered participation
in a research project or is aware that research is
a major driver to our desire to deliver the best and
safest clinical care in the country.
Figure 26: Numbers of patients recruited to
participate in research 2009/10 - 2012/13
1797
2079
2573
2863
A good way of finding out how well we are doing
on clinical research is to monitor the number of
peer reviewed research publications - excluding
abstracts and letters - that we deliver each year.
When a research publication is reviewed by other
professionals, or ‘peers’, this ensures that it is of a
high enough standard to be used to help develop
treatments for patients. Another important indicator
of research quality is the impact factor of the
journals in which the research is published, which
reflects the number of times the journal is cited by
other researchers and the number of citations of
particular publications over a period of time.
Figure 27: Peer Reviewed Publications per
year 2008/09 - 2012/13
141
178
225
271
218
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Table 29: Schemes agreed for Quality Improvement and Innovation 2012/13
CQUIN Goal Name WM PCT Cluster WMSCT Total End of year
Goal Weight Value Goal Weight Value Value Performance
Safety Thermometer - National 1 10% £179,659 1 5% £92,320 £271,979 Targets met
Safety Thermometer - 2 10% £179,659 7 5% £92,320 £271,979 Targets met
Paediatric Specific
Friends & Family Test - 3A 4% £71,863 8a 1% £23,080 £94,944 Targets met
Regional
Friends & Family Test - 3B 4% 71,863 8b 1% £23,080 £94,944 Targets met
Board Minutes
Friends & Family Test - 3C 4% £71,863 8c 1% £23,080 £94,944 Targets met
Weekly Reporting
Friends & Family Test - 3D 4% £71,863 8d 1% £23,080 £94,944 Targets met
Performance Improvement
Net Promoter - 4 16% £287,454 9 5% £92,320 £379,774 Targets met
Paediatric Specific
Healthy Lifestyles - Smoking 5A 8% £143,727 £143,727 Targets met
Healthy Lifestyles - Alcohol 5B 6% £114,981 £114,981 Targets met
2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13
One of our strategic objectives is to strengthen
Birmingham Children’s Hospital’s position as a
provider of specialised and highly specialised
services, so that we become the leading provider
of Children’s Healthcare in the UK. To help us
achieve this, we are implementing a Research &
Development Strategy towards becoming a leader
in paediatric clinical research.
Clinical research is important as it helps us to
understand conditions and improve and discover
new treatments, resulting in improved quality of
care for patients.
Use of the CQUIN Framework
A proportion of Birmingham Children’s Hospital
NHS Foundation Trust’s income in 2012/13 was
conditional upon achieving quality improvement
and innovation goals agreed between Birmingham
Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and
any person or body they entered into a contract,
agreement or arrangement with for the provision
of NHS services, through the Commissioning
for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment
framework.
The exception to this is the Quality Improvement
Development Innovation Scheme (QIDIS) used by
the National Specialised Commissioning Team to
support Trusts to improve the quality of care and
clinical outcomes for nationally designated services,
replacing CQUIN arrangements for those services.
Further details of the agreed goals for 2012/13
and for the following 12 month period are available
online at: https://commissioning.supply2health.nhs.
uk/eContracts/Documents/cquin-guidance.pdf
Healthy Lifestyles - 5C 2% £28,745 £28,745 Targets met
Making Every Contact Count
CAMHS QNCC 6 16% £287,454 £287,454 Targets met
Antimicrobial Stewardship 7 16% £287,454 £287,454 Targets met
Implementation of clinical 2 10% £184,641 £184,641 Targets met
dashboards for specialised
services
(PIC) To minimise the number 3 10% £184,641 £184,641 Targets met
of patients undergoing
unplanned extubation
CAMHS Tier 4: Education, 4 5% £92,320 £92,320 Targets met
training and meaningful activity
CAMHS Tier4: Patient 5 5% £92,320 £92,320 Targets met
Involvement in Recruitment
CAMHS Tier4: Feasibility study 6 5% £92,320 £92,320 Targets met
for conversion to single
room accommodation
Local CQUIN: Enhancing HDU 10 25% £461,602 £461,602 Targets met
Local CQUIN: CNS Pathway 11 20% £369,282 £369,282 Targets met
Planned CQUIN income 100% £1,796,585 100% £1,846,409 £3,642,994
Other Commissioners £276,508
Total Planned CQUIN income £3,919,502
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