Notice of Save King Hospital Meeting
Vison Suite Ilford Town Hall Tuesday 4th November at Midday
Agenda
1) Minutes of previous meeting
2) Matters arising
3) Discussion on how to make the public meeting of 14
November at Barkingside Library a success.
4) Department of Health letter in response to deputation to
10 Downing Street
5) Update on deputation to visit Department of Health to
present case for abandoning closure.
6) Discussion on inability of BHRUT and consequently Redbridge
Council to publish comprehensive Key Performance Indicators. While some
information is published by BHRUT, it is out of date. On the morning of 30
October, BHRUT is publishing information about July at http://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/our-performance.htm
Bed occupancy rates, one of the KPIs used by the by the Care
Quality Commission to determine if a hospital crosses the clinically safe
threshold, do not feature at all on the BHRUT page. On time comprehensive
publication of KPIs is a pressure to ensure that KGH bed closures in
preparation for closing KGH A&E improve the service as promised. If any KGH
bed closures lead to death rates rising then it seems likely that the doctors,
nurses and beds would go back into KGH.
Neither bed numbers, nor
an easy to understand death rate, feature on the BHRUT KPI page.
David Oliver writes at http://m.hsj.co.uk/5075988.article
that the:
“The best evidence for large scale quality improvement is
about clinically led standards of care; clinically led innovations in models of
service delivery, linked to
transparent publication of data on processes and outcomes; and a
community of practice and peer support from clinical leaders.” (my emphasis)
Comprehensive timely publication of KPIs should also a means for helping BHRUT get out of special
measures, the mystery is, why are they not being published?
7) Any other business.
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