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HealthStat – Significant Improvements in Hospitals performance since HealthStat inception on website

ACCESS
Access measures the waiting times that people experience for different services. Are patients able to access consultant led out-patient clinics, diagnostic services, treatments, procedures, therapy services, care group services and emergency services within acceptable timescales?
	March 2009	October 2012
	Peer targets, not weighted	International, National and weighted targets
*Green Traffic Lights	4	17
*Red Traffic Lights	7	1

INTEGRATION
Integration checks that the services received are patient-centred? Are people receiving outpatient or day care when they should be? Where it is suitable, are people being admitted on the day of their procedure? Is the length of stay for inpatient as should be expected? Are patients and their families informed about their treatment and included in discharge planning? Are access to diagnostic and primary care services appropriate?
	March 2009	October 2012
	Peer targets, not weighted	International, National and weighted targets
*Green Traffic Lights	5	21
*Red Traffic Lights	-	**2

*Green traffic light means very good performance and red traffic light means unsatisfactory requiring attention

** Additional and challenging metrics added January 2010

Updates:-

ED Waiting Times - In accordance with Ministerial policyMetric A2 – Emergency Department Waiting Times data is amended to 8am data from July 2011.
DRGs – Metric I2 - Day of Procedure Admission rate for Elective Inpatients - assignment of DRGs to specialties has been updated from Version 5 to Version 6.
Casemix Adjusted Base Price Index - Metric R1 - Finance and Resource Usage – the casemix adjusted base price has been updated. The casemix % variance of peers is also shown for information on this metric.