Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie are region’s safest hospitals

Cambridge University Hospitals has once again been identified as the safest hospital trust in the East of England by NHS research organisation Dr Foster.

 

The Trust has the region’s lowest standardised mortality ratio, with a particularly low rate for deaths following hip fracture. Overall, the results demonstrate that Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie are two of the safest hospitals in the country.

 

Dr Foster – an independent organisation which carries out health and social care research – has published the latest edition of its Hospital Guide, which lets patients compare information about NHS services to make an informed choice about where they are treated.

 

The research uses the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) as a statistical way of measuring how likely patients are to die in a particular hospital. Developed by Professor Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College, it measures the likelihood of individual patients dying – given their underlying condition, age and deprivation group – and then compares it to the actual number of deaths that occurred in other hospitals. That means that hospitals can be fairly compared with each another even if they treat very different patients. The HSMR is calculated by dividing the actual number of deaths by the expected number of deaths, then multiplying by 100 – so results below 100 mean there were fewer deaths than expected.

 

At CUH, the HSMR was just 80 – the best in the East of England, and one of just 26 trusts to do so well across the NHS in England.

 

Read the ‘report card’ for Cambridge University Hospitals:

> Dr Foster - Cambridge University Hospitals

 

 

Or read the full 2010 Dr Foster Hospital Guide:

> 2010 Dr Foster Hospital Guide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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