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Two OUH hospitals awarded by the National Joint Registry for commitment to patient safety

11/12/2024
Teams at the Horton General Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre have been awarded gold and silver awards respectively and been named as National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Providers after successfully completing a national data quality audit programme.

The NJR monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder joint replacement procedures to support work to improve the clinical outcomes for the benefit of patients, but also to provide feedback on surgical performance to orthopaedic clinicians and joint replacement implant manufacturers.  The registry collects high quality orthopaedic data in order to support patient safety, standards in quality of care, and overall value in joint replacement surgery. The 'NJR Quality Data Provider' certificate scheme was introduced to offer hospitals a blueprint for reaching high quality standards relating to patient safety and to reward those who have met the registry’s high  targets in the achievement of the quality of the data collected.  

The NJR Data Quality Audit compares the number of joint replacement procedures submitted to the registry to the number carried out and recorded in the local hospital Patient Administration System. The audit ensures that the NJR is collecting and reporting upon the most complete, accurate data possible across all hospitals performing joint replacement operations, including the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Horton General Hospital.

Graham Sleat, Divisional Medical Director of Neurosciences, Orthopaedics, Trauma, Specialist Surgery, Children's and Neonates (NOTSSCaN) at OUH, said: "Improving patient safety is of the upmost importance and something our teams take very seriously. We fully support the National Joint Registry's work in facilitating improvement in clinical outcomes for the benefit of joint replacement patients and we're delighted to be awarded as an 'NJR Quality Data Provider' at two of our hospitals."

Abtin Alvand, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and NJR Lead at OUH, said: "We would like to thank the entire NJR team for their hard work in moving this work forward – it's great to see our teams' efforts to improve patient care acknowledged this way."

Andrew Price, Clinical Director for Trauma and Orthopaedics at OUH, said: "Congratulations to our teams at both the Horton General Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre for their impressive achievement, which is testament to their ongoing commitment to providing excellent patient care."

Mr Tim Wilton, Medical Director of the National Joint Registry, said: “Congratulations to colleagues at both the Horton General Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.  

"As well as being a fundamental driver to inform improved quality of care for patients, registry data provides an important source of evidence for regulators, such as the Care Quality Commission, to inform their judgements about the quality of health services."

"The Quality Data Provider Award received by the teams demonstrates the high standards being met towards ensuring compliance with the NJR and is a reflection of strong departmental efforts to achieve such status."

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