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Waikato DHB mortality data
Media Release
Date: 18 September 2012
Waikato DHB mortality data
Waikato District Health Board hospitals participate in an independent data review process collated by the Health Roundtable.
The Health Roundtable collates data from over 100 hospitals throughout New Zealand and Australia and help each hospital with quality improvement, using this collected information.
The most recent information on the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (January 2012 to June 2012) for Waikato Hospital is 1.11, and not 1.77, as reported by the New Zealand Herald.
Waikato District Health Board is one of the few DHBs in New Zealand providing palliative care beds in its main hospitals. If we exclude from the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio those [palliative] patients who came into Waikato District Health Board hospital beds and died, the Waikato DHB Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio is 1.05.
This is only one of many reasons that makes comparison difficult.
Among the many quality and patient safety initiatives we have in place are:
1. Early warning
system to identify the unstable patient early, and increase
their level of care, if need be.
2. Many
interventions to identify patients at risk of falls, and
once these patients are identified, other interventions are
put in place to limit the chance of them falling while in
our care.
3. Better teamwork to manage the care of
complex illnesses that require input of more than one
clinical team. Waikato Hospital is one of the busiest trauma
hospitals in New Zealand, and the introduction of well
researched, best practice trauma guidelines has improved the
care of this complex group of patients.
4. Better
co-ordination of the movement of critically ill patients
between hospitals in the Midland region. Unlike many other
hospitals in New Zealand, Waikato Hospital is the tertiary
referral hospital for the care of very ill patients coming
from far away from the base hospital.
5. Improving
the community-based palliative care of patients in our
region.
Waikato District Health Board centrally and
formally reviews every hospital death.
We have set
ourselves the target of reducing preventable deaths by 10%
every year. To date, we are achieving that
goal.
ENDS
Waikato District Health Board
Healthy People. Excellent Care
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
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