Clinical outcomes
The Harley Street Clinic is proud of the quality of healthcare it provides and its outcome data. As part of our ongoing commitment to quality standards in healthcare, we contribute to various databases including:
- British Association of Surgical Oncology
- National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Death (NCEPOD)
- UK Heart Valve Registry
- Thames Cancer Registry
We also support the following external quality benchmarking:
- British Society of Interventional Cardiology (BCIS)
- British Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (BCS)
- Intensive Care National Audit Research Centre (ICNARC)
- Central Cardiac Audit Database (CCAD) for adults and paediatrics
- Quality Indicator Project (QIPS)
- Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service
Here are some of our latest quality outcomes :
- The MRSA rate for The Harley Street Clinic was 0 per cent per 10,000 patient bed days compared to 1.7% for other London hospitals in 2006
- We are 25 times less likely to have a C.Difficile outbreak at our hospital. Our C.Difficile infection rate for 2006 (for patients over 65 years) was 0.1 % compared to other London hospitals at 2.4%
- The Harley Street Clinic cardiac survival rate for the 12 months to March 2006 was 99.2% compared to all UK hospitals at 98.4%. The Healthcare Commission named The Harley Street Clinic as one of the top 10 hospitals for heart surgery in London. Healthcare Commission report : http://heartsurgery.healthcarecommission.org.uk
- The hospital's paediatric cardiac outcomes are above the national average for most procedures. The outcomes are published on the Central Cardiac Audit Database/Healthcare Commission website for Paediatric Cardiac Surgery www.ccad.org.uk/paedanalysis
- Figures show that our outcome results for chemotherapy treatment for early breast cancer are above national and international levels