Our Performance
At St George Hospital Hospital we want to provide safe, high quality health care. We use data to understand how we are performing against other Hospitals. We use this information to strengthen what is working well and improve on what is not working well.
Our Hospital regularly looks at quality and safety data to see how we are doing against other Hospitals. Our measures include:
Hand hygiene
Hand hygiene is the best way to stop germs spreading from one patient to another. Our staff should clean their hands before and after they care for each patient. We do regular hand hygiene audits. This means we monitor how often and how well our staff clean their hands.
Infection
When people are unwell they can be more likely to get an infection. Hospitals have a range of procedures to reduce the chance of this happening. We also monitor any cases of rare but serious infections like Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia (also known as ‘golden staph’).
Pressure Injuries
Anyone who needs to be in a bed or chair for a long time is at risk of developing of pressure injury. They are most common on bony parts of the body like the hip, tail bone, or heel. Hospitals use a variety of different ways to prevent and treat pressure injuries.
Falls with harm
Hospitals are unfamiliar places and patients may be weak, dizzy, or less steady than they expect. A fall in hospital can delay a patient’s recovery. In older people, it can contribute to a loss of independence. Hospitals use a variety of ways to help reduce the risk of a fall occurring.
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