Medical and Surgical Outcome Review Programme

Clinical Outcome Review

Delivered by:

National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD)

Website:

NCEPOD

This programme focuses on a variety of topics to assess the quality of healthcare provided to patients. It makes recommendations, generated by healthcare professionals, patients, carers and lay members, to support improvements in the care of future patients. The focus of its work is on quality rather than causation or outcomes, and a non-blaming, clinically-led narrative supports strong clinical engagement, ensuring impact of the programme’s reports.

NCEPOD’s national studies are of the highest clinical and methodological calibre, and its findings have directly informed improvements in patient safety, perioperative care, and system-wide clinical governance.” Association of Surgeons

Supporting improvement

This programme aims to facilitate improvements in safety and effectiveness by systematically enabling clinicians, managers and policy makers to learn from adverse events and other relevant data.

Call for topics

This programme runs an open call for topics each year – if there is an area of healthcare you would like them to consider, go to the NCEPOD website.