All three of our hospitals have been recognised as National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Providers.
The NJR monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder joint replacement procedures to improve clinical outcomes for the benefit of patients, but also to support and give performance feedback to orthopaedic clinicians and industry manufacturers.
The registry collects high quality orthopaedic data to provide evidence to support patient safety, standards in quality of care, and overall value in joint replacement surgery.
The ‘NJR Quality Data Provider’ certificate scheme was introduced to offer hospitals a blueprint for reaching high quality standards relating to patient safety and to reward those who have met registry targets.
Scunthorpe hospital achieved a Gold award, while Grimsby and Goole achieved silver.
In order to achieve the award for 2023, hospitals were required to meet a series of six ambitious targets. One of which was compliance with the NJR’s mandatory national audit aimed at assessing data completeness and quality within the registry.
The audit ensures that the NJR is collecting and reporting upon the most complete, accurate data possible across all hospitals performing joint replacement operations.
Dr Kate Wood, Group Chief Medical Officer, said: “Improving patient safety is of the upmost importance and something our staff take very seriously. We fully support the NJRs work in facilitating improvement in clinical outcomes for the benefit of joint replacement patients and we’re delighted to be awarded as an ‘NJR Quality Data Provider’. This is down to the hard work of our teams in Theatres and in our Quality and Audit department.”
National Joint Registry Medical Director, Mr Tim Wilton, said: “The Quality Data Provider Award demonstrates the high standards being met towards ensuring compliance with the NJR and is often a reflection of strong departmental efforts to achieve such status.
As well as being a fundamental driver to inform improved quality of care for patients, registry data provides an important source of evidence for regulators, such as the Care Quality Commission, to inform their judgements about the quality of health services.”