HQIP 12 September 2019
- The National Cardiac Audit Programme 2019 Annual Report covers over 300,000 records across five clinical areas:
- Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Myocardial Ischaemia (MINAP)
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
- Heart Failure
- Congenital Heart Disease
- The report focuses on three broad quality improvement themes: timely care, specialist care and evidence-based care delivered to a uniformly high standard.
- It highlights four areas of interest where improvements have been made but some hospitals have been slow to adopt innovation.
- Use of day-case elective PCI
- Use of disease-modifying medicines in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Deep wound infections after cardiac surgery requiring additional surgery
- Use of radial access for PCI procedures
