National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) has won its funding bid, albeit with a reduced grant, to carry on its undertaking to review patient care in hospitals.
NCEPOD Chairman, Bertie Leigh, said that after an uncertain year: “We are delighted to have been successful in the bid for the Clinical Outcome Review Programme into Medical and Surgical Care. This means that we can carry on with our work programme without any interruption in the studies underway and look forward to contributing to the development of patient care. “The vital contribution of NCEPOD is that it enables the profession to examine its own work self-critically, to examine the gap between what is and what should be. At a time of structural change in the NHS and unprecedented pressure on NHS resources, this work is of more importance than ever before.” In addition to its existing series of medical and surgical case studies, NCEPOD will also be undertaking an audit of surgical mortality as part of the work programme.
