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Performance
Mortality rates
These pages contain details of our clinical performance.
This means that if you are a patient, relative, or member of the public, you can see how we have been performing in different clinical areas. Included is a careful explanation of how the graphs are worked out, how we adjust for risk-factors, and important caveats about what this information should not be used for.
As a leading centre in cardiac surgery, we also collect and analyse very detailed information about our performance in this area.
This section of the site contains 'raw' and risk adjusted mortality rates for individual surgeons, as well as information about post-operative quality.
We hope you find this information useful and clear. Both sections contain details on how you can feed back your comments and suggestions.
This information is based on an award-winning system developed at St George's Healthcare to monitor mortality in individual areas.
The system, spots signs of improvement or worsening in mortality rates which cannot readily be explained by reference to the severity of illness of the patient, or other factors.
Leading innovation
We were the first hospital in the world, to continuously monitor mortality and understand what the death rate is for every individual area of practice within the Trust.
In making death rates public we try to get a balance between retaining the very carefully thought out accuracy and risk-adjustment of our monitoring system, with the need to present information in an understandable way.
We welcome feedback from members of the public, clinicians, academics and patients-to-be.
If you would like to make comments or enquiries about our methodology or presentation of these results, please email us at communications@stgeorges.nhs.uk.
Why we publish our mortality rates
We believe that our patients, their relatives and the public at large have a right to see how we are doing according to that most obvious of indicators - deaths in hospital.
Secondly, we want to show changes and developments over the course of time.
