Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Quality Account 2016-2017

Contents
Introduction
What is a Quality Account
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust – about us
Part One
A statement on quality from our Chief Executive
A statement from the Director of Nursing & Patient Services
A statement from the Medical Director
Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities
Part Two
Priorities for improvement 2016/17
General improvement in 2016/17
Bringing staff together
Learning from our patients
Priorities for improvement 2017/18
Statement of assurance from the Board
o Review of services and review of quality
o Participation in clinical audits and national confidential enquiries
o Local Audits
o Participation in clinical research
o Use of Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUINs) payment framework
o Statements from the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
o Implementing Duty of Candour
o Hospital Mortality Monitoring
Data quality
o NHS Number and General Medical Practice Code Validity
o Information Governance Toolkit attainment levels
o Clinical coding error rate
Performance against national quality indicators
Review of Activity 2016/17
Part Three
Review of quality performance
Stakeholder statements
Independent Auditors Assurance Report
Abbreviations
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