Medical and surgical outcome review programme: NCEPOD call for new topics
Published: 08 Sep 2015
National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), which delivers the Medical and surgical outcome review programme is commissioned by HQIP on behalf of NHS England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to undertake the Medical & Surgical Clinical Outcome Programme.
Call for new topics is now open and will close September 25th 2015
Please see the NCEPOD website for further details and to download the study proposal form.
NCEPOD’s call for topics information >
Medical and surgical outcome review programme >
Topics can be suggested by anyone who suspects there is a concern about the quality of care being provided to patients. The open call for topics ensures that all voices are heard, which may include policymakers, patients, health care professionals and funding bodies. The confidential enquiry method used provides a systematic process of multidisciplinary review of all or a sample of defined cases occurring in a defined period of time. Comparisons of care are made against guidelines or best practice where guidelines have not been developed. The review aim is to assess the quality of care provided in each case so as to inform future practice and improvements in care which may make a difference to future outcomes.
Study proposals to NCEPOD should therefore be in a medical or surgical topic relevant to the current clinical environment and should have the potential to contribute original work to the subject – please suggest topics that are different from recently published NCEPOD reports or add new learning to past reports.To give an idea of the breadth of coverage, the current studies being run by NCEPOD are on:
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Sepsis
- Acute pancreatitis
- Provision of mental health care
- Non-invasive ventilation
- Cancer in children and young people