Spire South Bank Hospital receives gold award from the National Joint Registry for their dedication to patient safety

• The National Joint Registry (NJR) has named Spire South Bank Hospital as a gold-standard Quality Data Provider after completing a national data quality audit programme

Colleagues at Spire South Bank Hospital have been recognised for their commitment to ensure compliance with the NJR (National Joint Registry) and have been awarded with an esteemed Quality Data Provider award.

The National Joint Registry 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.

In order to achieve the award, hospitals are required to meet a series of six ambitious targets during the audit period 2023/24. One of the targets which hospitals are required to complete is compliance with the National Joint Registry’s mandatory national audit aimed at assessing data completeness and quality within the registry.

The 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 South Bank Hospital.

Spire South Bank Hospital team

Dawn Pickrell, Hospital Director at Spire South Bank Hospital, said: “We are overjoyed to have been recognised and officially named as an NJR Quality Data Provider, as patient safety is of the upmost importance at Spire South Bank Hospital. We support the National Joint Registry’s work in facilitating improvement in clinical outcomes for the benefit of joint replacement patients.”

Medical Director of the National Joint Registry, Mr Tim Wilton, commented: “I would like to extend a congratulations to colleagues at Spire South Bank Hospital. Registry data provides a source of evidence for regulators, such as Care Quality Commission, to inform their judgements about the quality of health services, alongside being a fundamental driver to inform improved quality of care for patients.”