Waton, S; Johal, A; Heikkilä, K; Cromwell, D; Loftus, I; (2015) National Vascular Registry: 2014 Progress Report. Technical Report. The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2548668
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Abstract
The National Vascular Registry is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to measure the quality and outcomes of care for patients who undergo major vascular surgery in NHS hospitals in England and Wales. It aims to provide comparative information on the performance of NHS hospitals and thereby support local quality improvement as well as inform patients about the care delivered in the NHS. As such, all NHS hospitals in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are encouraged to participate in the Registry. The measures used to describe the patterns and outcomes of care are drawn from various national guidelines including: the “2014 The Provision of Services for Patients with Vascular Disease” and the Quality Improvement Frameworks published by the Vascular Society, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines on stroke and peripheral arterial disease. In 2014, the Registry published NHS trust and surgeon-level information for elective infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) repair and carotid endarterectomy on the Registry website. From 28 October, information on both procedures has been available on the www.vsqip.org.uk website for all UK NHS trusts that currently perform them. For English NHS trusts, the same information was published for individual consultants, as part of NHS England’s “Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2013/4” initiative. Consultant-level information was also published for NHS hospitals in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for consenting surgeons. This progress report aims to complement that information by (1) providing an overview of care delivered by the NHS at a national level, and (2) describing various developments within the National Vascular Registry. The Registry will publish its next annual report on major vascular surgery in November 2015.
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