The Care Quality Commission has made a preliminary review of all 161 NHS acute hospital trusts to determine in what order to inspect them and has placed the Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust in the first group to be inspected. RBH scored (just) in the highest risk group of 44 trusts out of 161 The CQC's rating is based on 165 separate measures. A partial version of the data obtained by The Guardian is available here and the CQC's raw data is available together with technical discussions of the risk rating here. The Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust seems to have risk indicated for
- Composite indicator: In-hospital mortality - Gastroenterological and hepatological conditions and procedures
- Composite indicator: In-hospital mortality - Respiratory conditions and procedures
- In-hospital mortality: respiratory medicine
- Healthcare Worker Flu vaccination uptake
- Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (Weekend)
- % Staff receiviing health and safety training over last 12 months
- Governance risk rating assessed by Monitor
- Never event incidence (1 in last 3 months)
- Neonatal readmissions
- Whistleblowing Alerts