A PRIVATE hospital in Taunton has won an award for its commitment to patient safety.

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is celebrating after being named as a National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider after successfully completing a national data quality audit programme for their hospital.

Heidi Finney, director of Clinical Services at Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital, said: “Improving patient safety is of the upmost importance and something all staff at our hospital take very seriously.

“We fully support the National Joint Registry’s work in facilitating improvement in clinical outcomes for the benefit of joint replacement patients and we’re delighted to be awarded as an ‘NJR Quality Data Provider’.”

The NJR monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder joint replacement procedures to support work to improve the clinical outcomes for the benefit of patients, but also to provide feedback on surgical performance to orthopaedic clinicians and joint replacement implant manufacturers.

The NJR Data Quality Audit compares the number of joint replacement procedures submitted to the registry to the number carried out and recorded in the local hospital Patient Administration System.

The audit ensures that the NJR is collecting and reporting upon the most complete, accurate data possible across all hospitals performing joint replacement operations, including Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital.

Full details about the NJR’s Quality Data Provider certificate scheme can be found online at: https://www.njrcentre.org.uk.