NHS Star Ratings 2003

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2003

  Well I live in a one star trust (Barnet and Chase Farm) and I find it hard to compare - where my trust gives figures there's no national comparison or vice versa thus making the whole purpose of the tables, to provide comparisons, pointless. Where I could find comparisons, in my Primary Care Trust (Barnet) I was disturbed by the few places where I could make a comparison namely:
  
  Death rates: Circulatory Diseases
  Barnet - 12.80% National Average - 4.00%
  
  Death rates: Cancer
  Barnet - 8.10% National Average - 0.10%

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2003

  so both my acute and ambulance trust are both 3 star
  
  the trust I work for is 2 star
  
  I don't think that this style of rating hospitals is particularly helpful.
  
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  one of the factors we are rated on is incidents
  
  we have just revised our incident reporting procedures and have trained most staff (3000) as a result many staff are now so paranoid that they no longer manager their own risks, but fill in an incident report for almost everything that happens - just in case. this has massively increased the workload of the risk manager.
  
  Yes organisations need targets and need to be accountable but a problem with reporting on these and things such as CHI (www.chi.nhs.uk (or whatever its new name is)) is that with good managers on paper a trust can look great, yet in practice it isn't quite so good.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2003

  Thanks for that link Mok.
  
  Well what would you know? The old and dirty-looking King's College has a 3-star rating! I'm off to A & E!

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2003

  I saw it on the news today that our local hospt in Colchester has gone from a 3 star to a 2 star, and theyre not happy about it.
  I dont think it means much though, when i was there on friday night at A&E they saw me within an hour and everyone was brilliant, i think thats the real test.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2003

  All hospitals in my region scored 3, however the Primary care trust I work for scored 2. Not surprised to be honest.

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