Quality account
All health service providers have to submit a report about the quality of their services.
The NHS definition of quality includes the experience that patients have of services, the outcomes achieved for patients and the safety of patients. This includes both community-based and inpatient services.
Our performance against a number of quality metrics (indicators) and our quality improvement priorities are set out in our quality account.
Download Quality AccountIf you have any comments about our quality account or our current or future quality improvement priorities please email [email protected]
Clinical audits
Clinical audit and effectiveness is one of the functions of the Clinical Assurance and Registration Department. Our department facilitates clinical audits carried out across the Trust, offering advice and support where required to individuals carrying out clinical audits.
Should you have any further enquiries, please contact:
Clinical audit and effectiveness team
Clinical assurance and registration department
Lanchester Road Hospital
Tarn Croft
Lanchester Road
Durham
DH1 5RD
Tel: 0191 333 3557
Email: [email protected]
Quality payments
The Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment framework enables commissioners to reward excellence, by linking a proportion of NHS providers’ income to the achievement of local quality improvement goals.
TEWV agreed a number of CQUIN schemes for 2023/24 which have now been completed. There are no CQUIN schemes for 2024/25.
2023-24
TEWV has agreed 3 non-specialist CQUIN schemes (CQUIN 15 has three elements) for 2023/24 which are listed below and cover the following sub-ICB locations:
- County Durham
- Tees Valley
- North Yorkshire
- Vale of York
You can find out more about the national CQUIN schemes here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-standard-contract/cquin/
| CQUIN No | Indicator Name | Description of Goal |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Staff Flu Vaccinations for frontline healthcare workers | The aim of this CQUIN is to: Achieve an 80% uptake of Flu vaccinations by frontline staff with patient contact. The benefits of achieving this CQUIN are as follows: Staff flu vaccinations are critical in reducing the spread of flu during winter months; therefore, protecting those in clinical risk groups and reducing the risk of contracting both flu and COVID-19 at the same time, and the associated worse outcomes, and reducing staff absence and the risk of the overall safe running of NHS services. |
| 15 | A – Routine outcome monitoring in community mental health services B – Routine outcome monitoring for CYP and perinatal mental health services | The aim of these CQUIN is to: A (i) – Achieve 50% of adults and older adults accessing select community mental health services (CMHSs), having their outcomes measure recorded at least twice. In order to meet the requirements of the indicator, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) data will need to be submitted (either in combination with Clinician-Reported Outcome Measures (CROM) or only PROM) as part of the numerator for this CQUIN during the financial year A (ii) – Achieve 10% of adults and older adults accessing select CMHS, having their PROM recorded at least twice. B – Achieve 50% of children and young people and women in the perinatal period accessing mental health services, having their outcomes measure recorded at least twice. The benefits of achieving these CQUINs are as follows: The use of outcomes measures helps monitor and improve effectiveness, efficiency and quality of the service offered to its service users, to ultimately monitor the impact/benefit people receive from mental health services. This also contributes to wider goals around improved recording and evaluation of interventions in the NHS Long Term Plan. |
| 17 | Reducing the need for the use of restrictive practices in adult and older adult inpatient settings | The aim of the CQUIN is to: Achieve 90% of restrictive interventions in adult and older adult inpatient mental health settings recorded with all mandatory and required data fields completed. The benefits of achieving this CQUIN is as follows: Restrictive interventions are often a major contribution to delaying recovery, and have been linked with causing serious trauma, both physical and psychological, to people who use services and to staff. This indicator will underpin measures that will need to be put in place to implement the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 that came into force in 2022. The Statutory Guidance supporting the Act is clear on the need for accurate recording of interventions. High quality data is a crucial building block to allow focus and reflection on the use of restrictive practices and consequently reduce the need for those practices. |
2024-25
There will be no CQUIN Schemes for 2024/25.
