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Domain 5 - Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm

Find out about domain 5, which includes patients admitted to hospital who were risk assessed for venous thromboembolism, the rate of C.difficile infection and patient safety incidents and the percentage that resulted in severe harm or death.

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Patients admitted to hospital who were risk assessed for venous thromboembolism

The percentage of patients who were admitted to hospital and who were risk assessed for venous thromboembolism (VTE) during the reporting period.  

Access the latest VTE data.

Access previous VTE data.

Download the Excel/CSV file for the relevant quarter or month. Select the value from the "Percentage of admitted patients risk-assessed for VTE" column.

Rate of C.difficile infection

The rate per 100,000 bed days of trust apportioned cases of C. difficile infection that have occurred within the trust amongst patients aged 2 or over during the reporting period.  

Access the latest C.difficile infection data.

Download the file and use the filters on the “annual_table” tab to select the data required. The rate can be viewed by selecting “rate’ from the “Value to display” filter.

Patient safety incidents and the percentage that resulted in severe harm or death.

The number and where available, rate of patient safety incidents that occurred within the trust during the reporting period, and the percentage of such patient safety incidents that resulted in severe harm or death.

This indicator forms part of the NHS Outcomes Framework (Domain 5 - Indicator 5.6 (formerly indicators 5a, 5b and 5.4)) and the latest indicator data by trust is available on the NHS Digital Website

 

Access the 'Patient safety incidents reported' data.

To find the quality account figures from the indicator data file, filter the data by the latest time period and your trust. Where the degree of harm column shows 'All' and the type of incident column shows 'All', this row gives you the number and rate of incidents. To calculate the percentage of incidents that resulted in severe harm or death, divide the indicator value (number) from the 'Severe or death' row by the indicator value (number) from the 'All' degrees of harm row and multiply the result by 100. 

The data for this indicator is sourced from NHS Improvement and is published every 6 months on their website. Further information about the data source can be found for national level data and for organisational level data. 

Further information

internal Quality Accounts

Quality Accounts are annual reports about the quality of services provided by an NHS healthcare service. They are published by each NHS healthcare provider, including the independent sector, and are made available to the public.

internal Domain 1 - Preventing people from dying prematurely

Find out about domain 1, which includes Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicators (SHMI), Patients on Care Programme Approach (CPA), Category 1 and Category 2 mean response times and patients with suspected ST elevation myocardial infarction who received the STEMI bundle.

internal Domain 4 - Ensuring people have a positive experience of care

Find out about domain 4, which includes responsiveness to the personal needs of patients, staff who would recommend the trust to their family or friends, patients who would recommend the trust to their family or friends and patient experience of community mental health services.

Last edited: 24 February 2021 3:55 pm