40Top Awards 2009

"It is a highly valued achievement because the hospital's performance is judged against a wide range of measures that are of equal importance to patients and staff"

Mary Edwards, Chief Executive, Basingstoke & North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust 

Recognising and rewarding 40 of the best performing acute trusts across the UK, the CHKS 40Top Awards are based on the evaluation of 21 indicators of clinical effectiveness, health outcomes, efficiency, patient experience and quality of care. 

Revised annually to take into account of newly-available performance information, this year's indicators include:

• Risk adjusted mortality
• Risk adjusted length of stay
• Rate of emergency readmission to hospital - 28 days
• Rate of emergency readmission to hospital following treatment for a fractured hip
• Day case rate for target procedures (case mix adjusted)
• Day case conversion rate (case mix adjusted)
• Overall data quality
• Rate of emergency readmission to hospital following AMI within 28 days
• Rate of emergency readmission to hospital within 14 days - COPD
• % of elective inpatients admitted on day of procedure
• Pre-op length of stay for fractured neck of femur
• Pre-op length of stay for elective surgery
• % Elective In-patient admission with no procedure
• Reported MRSA bacteraemia rate
• Reported C-difficile rate for patients aged 65 and over
• Procedure not carried out - hospital decision
• Inpatient Survey
• A&E survey
• Patient misadventures
• Obstetrics complications for delivery spells
• Outpatient DNA - first attendance  

 CHKS 40Top Hospital Award Winners 2009

Basingstoke & North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Dartford & Gravesham NHS Foundation Trust
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust
Hywel Dda NHS Trust
Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust
Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Trust
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust
The Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery NHS Trust
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Western Health and Social Care Trust
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
Weston Area Health NHS Trust
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust