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Heart ops data available online in the UK
BBC
NEWS:Parents of children with congenital heart disease can now check surgery
survival rates at the UK's 16 specialist heart centres online. The
initiative comes 10 years after the inquiry into the unnecessary deaths of
babies treated at Bristol's Royal Infirmary in the 1980s and 1990s.It
includes the number and range of procedures each does and survival rates for
the most common surgeries. However, the figures do not rate individual
surgeons. The figures are also not adjusted for risk, which means other
factors, such as the age or sex of the child or a particularly complex case,
might skew the data. The NHS' Information Centre (IC), which runs the new
website (www.ccad.org.uk/congenital), argues that data on individual
surgeons would be misleading as treatment is delivered by a team rather than
by an individual. The site also includes national averages for comparison
and any hospitals that appear to be failing can be flagged to the
appropriate authorities, the IC added. At least eight out of every 1,000
babies born each year have a heart defect and about half of these will need
medical treatment or surgery.
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