Dr Foster report - "How safe is your hospital?" - the position in Cheshire East
To receive a verbal update
Minutes:
Fiona Field, Director of Governance and Strategic Planning, Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT, briefed the Committee on Dr Foster. This was a private national company that looked at the performance of acute care. It produced annual public reports and sometimes league tables of acute care providers.
There had been a specific issue around mortality rates at both Mid Cheshire Hospital Foundation Trust and East Cheshire Hospital Trust. The Committee had therefore asked for a report to a future meeting and attendance by clinicians to discuss the issues raised by Dr Foster. Work at the PCT and two hospital trusts was almost complete and the issue could be fully considered at the next meeting.
RESOLVED: That the Dr Foster report and mortality rates be considered at the next meeting of the Committee on 1 July 2010.