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We are leaders in healthcare evaluation and research and have worked with leading organisations to inform policy and healthcare improvement.
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2010-07-14 CHKS supports excellence in the NHS with sponsorship of HSJ Awards 2010
CHKS, the UK's leader in healthcare intelligence and improvement services, is demonstrating its commitment to excellence in the NHS by sponsoring this year's HSJ Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year Award.
Read more...2010-06-24 Total readmissions within 30 days cost the NHS £1.6 billion
Figures compiled by CHKS using the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database show that total readmissions to hospital within 30 days is costing the NHS £1.6 billion(1) Read more...
2010-05-12 UK’s Top Hospitals receive accolades at tenth anniversary of prestigious awards ceremony
2010-04-23 Hospital standardised mortality ratios and their use as a measure of quality
Analysis of the data set which Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs) are based on raises questions about its suitability for this purpose. HSMRs rely on an assumption that the data set is uniform and consistent over time. This analysis shows that it has been both changing over time and varies between organisations – creating problems for the interpretation of HSMRs and is therefore a call for improved and consistent coding of hospital activity. Read more...
2010-04-19 DH sets up two new working groups for patient safety and HSMRs
We are delighted to be sitting on two new DH working groups, set up by the National Quality Board. Established to define an NHS-wide, standard HSMR and new patient safety indicators for use in England, the groups plan to have agreed the new methodologies by June 2010.
Patient safety working group
Focusing on developing patient safety indicators (with the exception of HSMRs) for England, the group met for the