The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre wins CHKS data quality award for specialist trusts

Posted 12th May 2017

The Centre has won the CHKS Top Hospitals programme data quality award for specialist trusts 2017.

The data quality award is a national award given in recognition of the importance of clinical coding and data quality, and the essential role they play in ensuring appropriate patient care and financial reimbursement from commissioners.

The CHKS Top Hospitals awards celebrate excellence throughout the UK and are given to acute sector organisations for their achievements in healthcare quality and improvement.

Andy Lockwood, managing director, Capita Healthcare Decisions, said: “The staff and management team at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust should take pride in having won this award. It is made on the basis of analysis of impartial indicators and shows a real commitment to improving data quality which is the starting point for improving services for patients.”

Kate Greaves, Associate Director of Quality & Business Intelligence was at the event to accept the award, she added: "We are absolutely delighted to have received this CHKS National Award for Data Quality (Specialist). It recognises and rewards the hard work and dedication of all of our staff, and in particular our Clinical Coders and Quality and Business Intelligence Teams, in a year which has seen us implement a new Electronic Patient Record system and Data Warehouse concurrently. We are passionate about our commitment to the ongoing accuracy, completeness, validation and quality of our data, which underpins the essential provision and growth of our outstanding services to the cancer patients we serve. A wonderful achievement for the Trust to be selected as the winner of this prestigious award."

The CHKS Top Hospitals programme awards were held in London on the 10th May and hosted by health policy analyst Roy Lilley alongside guest speaker Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bt OBE.