Spire Parkway Hospital receive gold-level award for ongoing dedication to patient safety

• Spire Parkway Hospital successfully complete a national data quality audit programme and are named as a National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Provider

Spire Parkway Hospital has been awarded a Quality Data Provider award by the NJR (National Joint Registry). This award highlights the exemplary standards that are being met towards certifying compliance with the NJR and emphasises on the continuous efforts to achieve such award.

The NJR monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder joint replacement procedures to support work to improve the clinical outcomes for the benefit of patients, but also to provide feedback on surgical performance to orthopaedic clinicians and joint replacement implant manufacturers. The registry collects orthopaedic data in order to support patient safety, standards in quality of care and overall value in joint replacement surgery.

A series of 6 ambitious targets are required to be met by hospitals during the audit period 2023/24, in order to achieve the award. One of the targets which hospitals are required to complete is compliance with the NJR’s mandatory national audit aimed at assessing data completeness and quality within the registry. To reach the gold-level standard of NJR Quality Data Provider, hospitals must score 99%-100% on having a clean set of audit data for primary and revision procedures.

The NJR audit compares the number of joint replacement procedures submitted to the registry to the number carried out and recorded in the local hospital Patient Administration System. The audit ensures that the NJR is collecting and reporting upon the most complete, accurate data possible across all hospitals performing joint replacements operations, including Spire Parkway Hospital.

Gold-standard NJR Quality Data Provider: Spire Parkway Hospital team

Emily Montgomery, Hospital Director at Spire Parkway Hospital, said: "We are delighted to have been named as a gold-standard NJR Quality Data Provider and will strive to achieve this honour next year also. Improving patient safety is at the forefront of everything we do at Spire Parkway Hospital and is something we all take very seriously. We completely support the NJR’s work in facilitating improvement in clinical outcomes for the benefit of joint replacement patients.

Mr Tim Wilton, Medical Director of the National Joint Registry, commented: “A huge congratulations to colleagues at Spire Parkway Hospital. 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 Care Quality Commission (CQC), to inform their judgements about the quality of health services.”