Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Quality Account 2016-2017

The HSMR-100 metric which covers all diagnoses shows a similar pattern to that of the HSMR:
The Standardised Hospital Mortality Index (SHMI) has also remained in the ‘as expected’ range.
The most recent update of the SHMI for the year from October 2015 to September 2016 was 94.7
and is shown in the graph below relative to our national peer group:
In December 2016 the CQC published a report “Learning, candour and accountability: a review of
the way NHS Trusts review and investigate the deaths of patients in England”. This review found
that learning from deaths was not being given sufficient priority in some organisations and
suggested that opportunities for improvements were being missed. It highlighted that Trusts could
do more to engage families and carers and use their insights as a source of learning.
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