The Christie NHS FT Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

An IG clinical coding audit took place in November 2019, by the Trust’s NHS Digital approved auditor the results of this audit are as follows:

% Correct

Primary diagnosis Secondary diagnosis Primary diagnosis Secondary diagnosis

92.0% 93.6% 93.9% 90.0%

Data quality The Christie NHS Foundation Trust as part of its quality improvements programme will be taking the following actions to improve data quality: • The Data Quality Group, a sub-committee of the Information Governance Committee, continues to meet on a monthly basis; • The Income and Data Project Manager continues to undertake specific Data Quality audits and change implementation projects; • Worked, and continue to work, collaboratively with commissioners to respond to data challenges. • Two Data Quality Officers have been employed by the Performance Team to; correct data quality errors, advise staff in the correct reporting of data in the trust Patient Administration System (PAS) • The trust has introduced a mini-spine dashboard for the identification of Master Patient Index (MPI) discrepancies between the trust MPI and the NHS National Spine. Reporting against core indicators NHS Outcomes Framework Indicator National average

The Christie Performance 2018/19

The Christie Performance 2019/20

National Highest/ lowest

The value and banding of the summary hospital level mortality indicator (“SHMI”) The percentage of patient deaths with palliative care coded at either diagnosis or specialty level

Preventing people from dying prematurely.

This is not applicable to The Christie as we are a specialist cancer hospital.

Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust considers that this indicator is not applicable to the Trust as all our patients have a cancer diagnosis and are not part of the inclusion criteria.

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