Cast Study Critique Report on "Francis Report 2013 (Recommendation 15)" About Mortality Statistics

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Health - Public Health, University of Bedfordshire (MBA (Health Services Management)), course: Organising Modern Health Care Services, language: English, abstract: The report explored the Francis report regarding Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation. The report also examined and analysed the recommendation 15 of Francis report based on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation. The report mainly highlighted the mortality statistics of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation and how mortality statistics influenced the entire hospital as well as NHS foundation trust through the different performance strategies. Mortality statistics was done through data collection, data analysis, assessing hospital performance, and publishing the final audit report, while the report highlighted that auditing was the best strategy to improve the total performance of the hospital. In addition, the critique report recommended seven principles for medical auditing for instances clinical and health providers individual’s duty, self-management of the medical staffs, availabilities of the auditing, essential criteria of the auditing, required resources of the medical auditing, record keeping, and evaluation of the final audit outcomes by various medical and non-medical experts. These seven principles were identified as effective and significant to provide the quality care of the patients and improve the overall performances of the medical organisations.