Spire Wellesley Hospital in Southend-on-Sea is awarded for dedication to patient safety
16 December 2024
- Spire Wellesley Hospital successfully completes audit process to receive Gold level certification
Spire Wellesley Hospital has been awarded as a Gold level National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider for 2024 after successfully completing a national programme of local data audits. This award demonstrates the exemplary standards upheld by the hospital to ensure patient safety.
The NJR monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow, and shoulder joint replacement procedures to help improve the clinical outcomes for the benefit of patients, but also to provide feedback to orthopaedic clinicians and industry manufacturers on surgical performance. The registry collects high quality orthopaedic data in order to provide evidence to support patient safety, standards in quality of care, and overall value in joint replacement surgery.
The NJR Quality Data Provider scheme has been devised to offer hospitals public recognition for achieving excellence in supporting the promotion of patient safety standards and is achieved by complying with the mandatory NJR data submission quality audit process. The audit compares the number of joint replacement procedures submitted to the registry to the number carrier out and recorded in the local hospital Patient Administration System. This ensures that the NJR are reporting on the most accurate data possible across all hospitals performing joint replacement procedures, including Spire Wellesley Hospital.
Spire Wellesley achieving Gold level National Joint Registry award
In order to achieve the Gold level award, Spire Wellesley Hospital were required to meet a series of ambitious targets during the 2023/24 audit period.
Sue Holliday, Hospital Director at Spire Wellesley Hospital, said: “We are delighted to have achieved the Gold standard NJR Quality data provider accreditation and will continue to strive for this standard on an annual basis. Patient safety is at the forefront of everything we do at Spire Wellesley hospital and it is a testament to the team for their hard work and involvement to have gained this award.”
Mr Antony Greer, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon and MAC Chair at Spire Wellesley Hospital, said: “The National Joint Registry was introduced to help us ensure we are treating our patients to the very highest standards. This award shows our commitment in continuing to improve those standards. It takes a huge amount of hard work to win this and we are very proud of the team for this achievement.”