WARRINGTON and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been named as the best performing trust in the North West for providing hip and knee replacement surgery.
The North West’s health care quality improvement body – AQUA – has scored the trust’s services provided at The Cheshire and Merseyside Treatment Centre at Runcorn’s Halton General Hospital and at Warrington Hospital as the highest rated against their patient safety quality measures out of 20 hospitals across the region.
AQUA monitor the quality of services delivered at hospitals through a programme called Advancing Quality.
It aims to make sure every patient admitted to a North West hospital is given the same high standard of care no matter which hospital they attend.
Each hospital is measured against how many of their patients get the appropriate care they need for the best outcome from their surgery.
Warrington and Halton’s hip and knee replacement surgery team scored 97.7% against the measures.
They include giving appropriate antibiotics to prevent infection for the right time before and after surgery and providing blood thinning medication to reduce the risk of blood clots developing.
Every patient who has a hip and knee replacement has their care monitored and reported through the Advancing Quality programme.
Mr Rajiv Sanger, trauma and orthopaedic consultant and orthopaedic lead at Warrington and Halton Hospitals, said: “We are delighted to be named as the best performing hospital in the region for hip and knee care.
“We have a team of very dedicated staff who take tremendous pride in delivering an excellent standard of care.
“This includes very experienced consultant surgeons and specialist nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
“We work as a team to provide an excellent patient experience with enhanced recovery rehabilitation for our patients.
“All our surgical care is consultant led, something we are very proud of here to give that dedicated and tailored service to our patients.
“This award from Advancing Quality is a testament to the hard working team.
“We have a wonderful purpose built unit for orthopaedic care and this award encourages us to continue to provide excellence in care and experience to our local patients.”
Pictured: Mr Rajiv Sanger (far right), trauma and orthopaedic consultant and orthopaedic lead at Warrington and Halton Hospitals and members of the hospital team receive their award from Sam Doddridge (far left) and Simon Hammond (second left) from AQUA
