Nuffield Exeter is top of the ops

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital has been named as a top performing hospital in the provision of orthopaedic care to NHS patients in the most recent NHS Partners Network (NHSPN) Report on Independent sector providers care for NHS patients.

The report presents a comparison between the performances of independent sector providers with their NHS counterparts, and looks at indicators including patient experience, clinical quality and patient outcomes and safety. 

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) - the statistics collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre for a range of elective procedures show the Exeter hospital scoring highly.  The figures show that Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital was in the top 13 providers in the country for Primary Hip Replacement.

Paul Taylor, Hospital Director at Nuffield Health Exeter said:  “We are absolutely delighted to be acknowledged as one of the UK’s top performers in the provision of Primary Hip Replacements.

We know from feedback from our patients that the quality of care is consistently high and we are proud that this has been recognised.   I believe that the care at the Nuffield Health Exeter hospital is on a par with any other provider in the country.”

Paula Winter, Matron at Nuffield Health Exeter said:  “All of the clinical staff in the hospital work very hard to ensure that we consistently provide a highly skilled, high quality and safe services across our surgical, medical and nursing services.   We want our patients to experience the best care possible and these new figures reflect the hard work of the whole clinical team.”

Elective care is critically reliant on independent sector provision. Around 20% of all elective gastroenterology procedures and hip and knee replacements are now carried out by the independent sector.

In some areas of the country this figure is far higher. As well as NHS patients, many independent sector providers also treat large numbers of privately-funded patients as well.  However, the overall number of NHS patients treated by independent organisations remains a small fraction of total NHS volumes.