NICOR News
Heart Surgery Governance Tool Launched
NICOR, the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (SCTS), and the University of Manchester, has released the SCTS Governance Tool. This new online rescource enables cardiac surgery consultants to access information about their clinical activity and outcomes, which facilitates effective monitoring of data quality and clinical practice. The tool allows selection of time periods and operative groups to generate downloadable reports ‘on demand’, which show analysis based on up-to-date, and 'cleaned', National Adult Cardiac Surgery Audit (NACSA) data. More...
Published: Feb 7, 2014 3:28:12 PM
NICOR CRM Devices 2012 Annual Report
The 2012 annual report on devices from the Cardiac Rhythm Management National Audit has now been published. It is available to view and download from: More...
Published: Feb 5, 2014 1:48:26 PM
NICOR patient and public day 2014
NICOR (The National Institute for
Cardiovascular Outcomes Research) collects patient information from hospitals
across the UK to try and improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients
that have heart problems and treatments. These include adult heart surgery,
heart attack, heart procedures, heart devices (for example pacemakers), heart
failure and congenital heart surgery. More...
Published: Feb 4, 2014 2:11:08 PM
PCI Audit Report 2012
Public
Report National Audit of Percutaneous Coronary Interventional (PCI) procedures 2012
published January 30th 2014.
Expansion in the use of Percutaneous
Coronary Intervention (PCI) is seeing more patients with acute coronary
syndromes treated more quickly, according to the latest National Audit of PCI
(covering 2012). Key findings from the report include: More...
Published: Jan 30, 2014 8:09:31 AM
Acute myocardial infarction: a comparison of short-term survival in national outcome registries in Sweden and the UK
The Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP), from which the data for the Lancet paper was obtained, continues to collect detailed information about the care provided to patients with heart attack. This demonstrates the commitment of participating clinicians, Trusts and governments to improvements in quality of care. While important improvements have been made since 2010, the end of the period studied by the researchers, there is no room for complacency. We need to continue emphasising both the provision of the best modern care, and the recording of that care. We also need to shift from publishing details of the process of care to the outcomes of care. It is our intention to produce a preliminary report of outcomes for each hospital this year. More...
Published: Jan 23, 2014 10:33:12 AM
SLMS news
UCL researchers set to take their research to parliament
Mar 14, 2014 13:46PM
Sixteen researchers from around UCL have been shortlisted to present their research to a panel of expert judges and over 100 MPs in this year’s SET for Britain competition.
Read more...Human brains ‘hard-wired’ to link what we see with what we do
Mar 14, 2014 12:15PM
Your brain’s ability to instantly link what you see with what you do is down to a dedicated information ‘highway’, suggests new UCL-led research.
Read more...Invisible light bursts are keeping animals away from power lines
Mar 13, 2014 11:33AM
Animals may avoid high voltage power cables because of flashing UV light that is undetectable to humans, scientists say.
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