Our Evidence-based Healthcare Advisory Group has reviewed the reports below:
Inpatient Falls 2024 Report on 2023 Clinical Data (NAIF)
The National Falls & Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) has published Don’t Stop Moving (Optimising safety while staying active in hospital), the 2024 National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) report on 2023 clinical data. Based on 1,609 cases, it states that falls prevention activity should not focus solely on older people’s wards, finding that nearly half of all inpatient femoral fractures (IFFs) occur on general medical wards (almost twice the proportion of IFFs that happen in older people’s wards).
Full Report: Inpatient Falls 2024 Report on 2023 Clinical Data (NAIF)
Infographic: Inpatient Falls 2024 Report on 2023 Clinical Data (NAIF) Infographic
Early inflammatory arthritis 2024 report (NEIAA) Summary Report
The National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit (NEIAA) has published a State of the Nation Summary Report 2024. Based on data collected between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024 in England and Wales, it states that engagement with the project is more widespread than ever, with all eligible units returning some data since the last report, an increase from 96.4% to 100%.
Full Report: Early Inflammatory Arthritis 2024 Report (NEIAA)
Infographic: Early Inflammatory Arthritis 2024 (NEIAA) Infographic
Emergency Laparotomy Ninth Patient Report (NELA)
The National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) has published its Ninth Patient Report, covering December 2021 to March 2023.
It finds that there has been a deterioration in performance since last year in several key areas. In many others there has been insufficient improvement over repeated audit cycles and annual reports. Examples of a decline in performance include preoperative engagement with consultant anaesthetists and intensivists, and the proportion of patients who arrive in theatre within stated timescales from the time of decision to operate. Importantly, this report also shows a corresponding lack of further improvement of some key outcome measures including mortality and postoperative length of stay.
Full Report: Emergency Laparotomy Ninth Patient Report (NELA)
Infographic: Emergency Laparotomy Ninth Patient Report (NELA) Infographic
Publication of National Joint Registry (NJR) Annual Report
The NJR’s 21st Annual Report for the period of 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024 contains full analysis of the shoulder, elbow and ankle joints available.
The Registry’s purpose is to record patient information and provide data on the performance and longevity of replacement joint implants, the surgical outcomes for the hospitals where these operations are carried out, and on the performance outcomes of the surgeons who conduct the procedures.
The NJR has shown that orthopaedic surgery, as one of the main users of implant devices in the UK, is demonstrating the highest standards of patient safety in their use. A key message from the report is that safety and clinical outcomes continue to improve, as identified through the reduction of joint revision surgery.
Read in full: All report sections can be found on the NJR’s dedicated report website here https://reports.njrcentre.org.uk.
Publication of Maternity care-Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care (MBRRACE-UK) Report
The Maternal, Newborn and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme has published Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care, an MBRRACE-UK report containing surveillance findings and lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths from thrombosis and thromboembolism, malignancy and ectopic pregnancy 2020-2022, and morbidity findings for recent migrants with language difficulties.
Maternity Care Saving Lives Infographic
Maternity Care Saving Lives Full Report
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