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- The NCEPOD stakeholder survey findings
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Over the summer of 2012 NCEPOD have undertaken a stakeholder survey to understand what our stakeholders think we do well, and to find out where and what improvements can be made. The aim of this audit was to gauge the perceptions of NCEPOD at a local level; and to explore how reports are received, and the impact of recommendations, at both a local and national level. To download the full report please click the link here.
In summary the areas of care to be explored included:
- Recommendations (ease of implementation and impact)
- Resources (reports, audit tools, self assessment checklists)
- Staff (helpfulness, response time to queries, how knowledgeable staff are)
- Relevance of topics
- Study timescales
- Dissemination of information
The main findings of this survey were:
- The majority of respondents (65%, 231/358) rated the overall impact of NCEPOD as a national organisation reviewing the quality of patient care as high to extremely high.
- 92% of respondents were of the opinion that the organisation is well respected by clinicians.
- 57% (200/353) of respondents rated the overall reputation of NCEPOD as high to extremely high.
- Independence from the Government was rated as important-extremely important by 80% (310/386) respondents.
- NCEPOD method was rated as robust to extremely robust by 53% (201/382) of respondents and adequate by 44% (168/382) of respondents.
- The standard of NCEPOD recommendations was rated to be above adequate by 69% (253/368) of respondents.
- The ease of implementation of recommendations was rated as neither easy nor difficult to implement by 64% (235/366) of respondents and difficult-extremely difficult by 25% (93/366) of respondents.
- 63% (222/355) of respondents indicated the topics chosen to be NCEPOD studies were relevant or extremely relevant.
- Only 96 respondents had attended an NCEPOD event in the past; of these 71 found the event to be relevant or extremely relevant to their work.
- Of the 136 respondents who had contacted the NCEPOD office with a query, 100% found the staff to be friendly and helpful.
Many thanks to all respondents for taking the time to complete this survey
- The NCEPOD 2012 Report launch of: "Cardiac Arrest Procedures: Time to Intervene?"
The NCEPOD 2012 Report "Cardiac Arrest Procedures: Time to Intervene?" was launched at the The Royal College of
Anaesthetists - London on 1st June 2012.
To view the report please click here. - The NCEPOD 2011 Report launch of: "Peri-operative Care: Knowing the Risk"
The NCEPOD 2011 Report "Peri-operative Care: Knowing the Risk" was launched at the The Royal College of Surgeons of England - London on 9th December 2011.
To view the report please click here. - The NCEPOD 2011 Report launch of: "Surgery in Children: Are We There Yet?"
The NCEPOD 2011 Report "Surgery in Children: Are We There Yet?" was launched at the The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - London on 27th October 2011.
To view the report please click here. - NCEPOD wins bid to carry on reviews into patient care in hospitals.
- NCEPOD has won its funding bid to continue its job of safeguarding and improving the quality of patient care in the UK’s hospitals by undertaking confidential case reviews.
To view the full news release please click here.
- We are currently recruiting for NCEPOD Ambassadors
- This role is based working alongside our existing NCEPOD Local Reporters. For more information about the role please click here.
- NCEPOD Annual Lecture (20yr celebration). - Held at One Great George Street
- On Tuesday 23rd September NCEPOD held its first annual lecture. This lecture marked 20 years of NCEPOD and we were delighted that it was delivered by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director of the NHS.
Sir Bruce was able to comment on 20 years of NCEPOD and 60 years of the NHS.
The evening was chaired by Professor Tom Treasure, Chairman of NCEPOD and held in lovely surroundings at One Great George Street in Westminster.
NCEPOD would like to thank everyone that attended. We found the evening to be very enjoyable and are already looking forward to next year's lecture.
- Elderly patients vulnerable because of excessive doses of sedatives.
- Following on from our 2004 report 'Scoping Our Practice', an article has been written suggesting measures to prevent the over sedation of elderly patients.
To download the report please click here.
The Adobe Acrobat reader is required which is free to download here.
- NPSA involvement
NPSA involvement
From 1 April 2005 the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has expanded, giving it greater scope to improve patient safety in the NHS.
The NPSA helps the NHS learn from things that go wrong and develops solutions to prevent harm in the future. We do this by working with patients and staff locally and nationally to foster a culture where errors can be investigated and innovative solutions developed. We also do this by collecting and analysing information from staff and patients via our national reporting and learning system and other sources.
From 1 April 2005, the NPSA's work also encompasses: safety aspects of hospital design, cleanliness and food (transferred from NHS Estates); ensuring research is carried out safely, through its responsibility for the National Research Ethics Service (NRES); and is supporting local organisations in addressing their concerns about the performance of individual doctors and dentists, through its responsibility for the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), formerly known as the National Clinical Assessment Authority. It also manages the contracts with the three confidential enquiries. This responsibility has been transferred from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).
All contact addresses for these organisations remain the same and can be found here:
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