Ian Hamilton's Response To My E-mail Telling Him Cancelled Operations Are Being Mis-reported
From:
Ian Hamilton
Sent:
15 October 2001 19:23
To:
Ian Perkin
Cc:
Wendy McCarthy; John Parkes
Subject:
RE: Cancelled Operations On The Day
Dear
Ian,
We
discussed and I raised with John Parkes who is responsible for the SITREP Return
to Region.
John
P is wholly accountable for the return and he advises that the cancellations
data is not from pas due to the lack of robustness of the data. This
has not been hidden, and our Audit Commission return flags up that John P is
responsible for the return.
I
understand that further work is being undertaken to bottom out the pas report-as
other trusts across the former SW Thames area do not appear to have the same
problems we have.
Wendy
needs to be assured by you that John P takes responsibility for the return.
IAN
H
-----Original
Message-----
From:
Ian Perkin
Sent:
12 October 2001 12:31
To:
Ian Hamilton
Cc:
Wendy McCarthy
Subject:
Cancelled Operations On The Day
Ian
I think you need aware
of issue that I need to draw your attention which concerns the integrity of the
information that the Trust is currently sending the Regional Office.
A member of the
Information Staff has raised concerns about the Trust's reporting of
"Cancellation of Elective Surgery".
Kelly Goulding who is a grade 5 A&C member of the Information team
has this week while Jenny Jones is away, been entering the weekly SITREP report
information. For the period 1/10 to
7/10 among other required information she entered on to the report that we had
28 patient cancellations. However,
before she sent the report off she had a telephone conversation with John Parkes
who told her that she was to report zero in this category, as this was an area
in which the Trust was being closely monitored. Kelly checked the previous weeks
figures SITREP report against PAS and found that although Jenny Jones had
reported zero for cancelled patients PAS in fact showed that the Trust had 42
cancelled patients. When this point
was raised within the Information Department, Tracey Dean said that Jenny Jones
had told her that the figure had similarly
been reduced to zero on John's instructions.
You will appreciate that
this potential mis-reporting of these figures has caused some concern within the
Directorate as staff are concerned that this may be an issue that will
criticised at a later date and that they themselves may be accused of mis-reporting
the position. I would be grateful if we could discus this issue at our meeting
this afternoon.
Ian