Top Hospitals 2019 winners and shortlists


Quality Improvement Award 2019
 
This international client-only award identifies and measures significant improvements in patient care and patient experience as well as staff welfare, safety and morale. The CHKS quality improvement award 2019 is open to all healthcare organisations accredited by CHKS in 2018. All submissions are evaluated by the CHKS Accreditation Awards Panel. To find out more about our accreditation services please click here.
 
The shortlisted organisations for 2019 are:

  • Centro Hospitalar do Medio Ave, E.P.E.
  • The Children’s Trust  - Winner
  • New Victoria Hospital  
  • St Francis Private Hospital
 
Data Quality Awards 2019

 
The three data quality awards recognise the importance of clinical coding and data quality, and the essential role they play in ensuring appropriate patient care and financial reimbursement from commissioners. We will present three data quality awards, celebrating the best performers across England, N.Ireland and Wales, with separate awards for specialist trusts and independent sector hospitals.
 
CHKS Data Quality (England, N.Ireland and Wales) Award 2019
 
The shortlisted organisations for 2019 are:

  • North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • East Cheshire NHS Trust
  • Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust  - Winner
  • The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
 
CHKS Data Quality (Specialist Trust) Award 2019
 
The shortlisted organisations for 2019 are:

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust
  • Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust  - Winner
  • The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
 
CHKS Data Quality (Independent Provider) Award 2019
 
The shortlisted trusts for 2019 are:

  • BMI – The Lincoln Hospital
  • Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital
  • BMI – The Beardwood Hospital
  • Spire Bristol Hospital  - Winner
  • BMI – The Winterbourne Hospital
 
CHKS Patient Experience Award 2019
 
This award focuses on what patients think of their experience of visiting a hospital. It is based on a range of patient experience indicators including inpatient surveys, the most recent surveys from A&E, outpatient or maternity, friends and family tests, and PLACE scores.

The shortlisted trusts for 2019 are:

  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust  - Winner
  • Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
 
CHKS Quality of Care Award 2019
 
Awarded nationally for excellence in care to patients, appropriate to their diagnosis, it is based on criteria that include the length of time patients stay in hospital, the rate of readmissions, and whether the care pathway proceeded as originally intended.

The shortlisted organisations for 2019 are:

  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust  - Winner
  • Whittington Health NHS Trust
  • Weston Area Health NHS Trust
 
CHKS Patient Safety Award 2019
 
A national award for outstanding performance in providing a safe hospital environment for patients, it is based on a range of indicators including rates of hospital-acquired infections and mortality.

The shortlisted organisations for 2019 are:

  • Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northern Health and Social Care Trust  - Winner
  • South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust 
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust
  • North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
 
CHKS Healthcare Efficiency Award 2019
 
The Healthcare Efficiency award recognises organisations that have achieved high standards of operational excellence and outperform their peers on efficiency indicators that support care quality and patient outcomes. 

The shortlisted organisations for 2019 are:

  • Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  - Winner
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
 
Most Improved Award 2019

The following trusts have showed the greatest improvement across a range of indicators:

  • Wye Valley NHS Trust
  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation
  • North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
  • Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust  - Winner
  • Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
 
CHKS Top Hospitals Awards 2019
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Recognising and rewarding the best performing trusts across the UK, the CHKS Top Hospitals Awards are based on 22 indicators that evaluate clinical effectiveness, health outcomes, efficiency, patient experience and quality of care.
 
CHKS Top 40 Hospitals Awards winners 2019
 

  • Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
  • Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Bedford Hospital NHS Trust
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
  • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
  • East Cheshire NHS Trust
  • Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
  • Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
  • Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
  • Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
  • South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
  • South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust
  • Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 
  • West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
  • West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
  • Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Weston Area Health NHS Trust
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
 
See a full list of our indicators here.
To find out more about the awards ceremony click here.


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