National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death

To ensure that a wide variety of medical and surgical studies are undertaken, the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) is currently running four projects, covering very different topics but all with the underpinning aim to review the quality of care received by patients in hospital. The areas being studied include the care of patients who undergo resuscitation in hospital; bariatric surgery for weight loss, death following a diagnosis of alcohol-related liver disease and hospital treatment following a subarachnoid haemorrhage.

NCEPOD will also be publishing two new reports in the coming months - A review of the care received by children who died following surgery and A review of peri-operative practice (9th December)

About NCEPOD

NCEPOD is an independent charitable organisation that reviews medical and surgical clinical practice and makes recommendations to improve the quality of the delivery of care for the benefit of the public. They do this by undertaking confidential surveys and research covering many different aspects of care and making recommendations for clinicians and management to implement.

You can read more on www.ncepod.org.uk>>

Latest Reports

• December 2011: Knowing the Risk: A review of the peri-operative care of surgical patients
• October 2011: Are We There Yet? A review of organisational and clinical aspects of children's surgery