PURPOSE OF THE STUDY There are approximately 35 000 in-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year. Successful resuscitation requires integration of the medical science, training and education of clinicians and implementation of best practice in the clinical setting. In 2015, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) published its latest resuscitation treatment recommendatio...

Searching Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, NHS CRD's Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed and the National Research Register (NRR) were searched from 1980 to July 1999 (search terms provided). In addition, the bibliographies of related papers were searched and...

This paper examines the relationship between performance of English public sector hospitals (NHS trusts) and the quality of their nursing staff. Performance ratings of NHS trusts published in 2001 and 2002 indicate a clear regional divide. This divide is not explained by lower medical need. The gap between wages in the private and public sector (the private sector premium) has a regional divide...

OBJECTIVE Post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer (PCCRC) is a key quality indicator of colonoscopy. This study compares methods for defining PCCRC rates, proposes a new method of calculating them and quantifies them across the English National Health Service (NHS). DESIGN This retrospective observational population-based study involved all individuals with a first primary diagnosis of colorectal ...

The paper entitled ‘Patient Safety: Whose Vision?’ examined the concept of ‘patient safety’ and attempted to unravel its inherent complexity by examining the perceptions of a range NHS managers and professionals. It drew from a recently completed National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation (NIHR SDO) programme commissioned study, which employed qualitative methods t...

Objectives: To assess the variation in risk-adjusted 30-day post-operative mortality for colorectal cancer patients between Hospital Trusts within the English NHS. Setting: All providers of major colorectal cancer surgery within the English NHS Participants: All 160,920 individuals who underwent a major resection for a colorectal cancer diagnosed between 1998 and 2006 in the English NHS Main ou...

The English National Health Service (NHS) announced a new programme to incentivize use of the NHS Safety Thermometer (NHS ST) in the NHS Operating Framework for 2012/13. For the first time, the NHS is using the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) scheme, a contract lever, to incentivize ALL providers of NHS care to measure four common complications (harms) using the NHS ST in a pro...