Each year at the CHKS Top Hospitals Awards, we recognise the importance of clinical coding and data quality, and the essential role they play in ensuring appropriate patient care and financial reimbursement from commissioners in our national data quality awards for excellence.
At our recent awards event, we celebrated the best performers across England, N.Ireland and Wales based on a range of indicators with separate awards for specialist trusts and independent sector hospitals. These indicators included mean diagnoses per spell, mean procedures per spell, unspecified primary and secondary diagnoses, unspecified procedures, unrecorded comorbidities, chapter specific CCs and signs and symptoms.