Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Patient Survey Programme is one of the largest patient survey programmes in the world. It provides an opportunity to monitor experiences of health and provides data to assist with registration of trusts and monitoring on-going compliance. Understanding what people think about the care and treatment they receive is crucial to improving the quality of care being delivered by healthcare organisations. One way of doing this is by asking people who have recently used the health service to tell the Care Quality Commission (CQC) about their experiences. The CQC will use the results from the surveys in the regulation, monitoring and inspection of NHS acute trusts (or, for community mental health service user surveys, providers of mental health services) in England. Data are used in CQC Insight, an intelligence tool which identifies potential changes in quality of care and then supports deciding on the right regulatory response. Survey data will also be used to support CQC inspections. Each survey has a different focus. These include patients' experiences in outpatient and accident and emergency departments in Acute Trusts, and the experiences of people using mental health services in the community. History of the programme The National Patient Survey Programme began in 2002, and was then conducted by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), along with the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (CHAI). Administration of the programme was taken over by the Healthcare Commission in time for the 2004 series. On 1 April 2009, the CQC was formed, which replaced the Healthcare Commission. Further information about the National Patient Survey Programme may be found on the CQC Patient Survey Programme web pages.
The Community Mental Health Service User Survey, 2014 (MH14) was designed to provide actionable feedback to each participating trust on service users' views of the care they had received. The survey covers issues that affect the quality of care that people receive and were identified by people as important to them. Topics covered include: health and social car workers, planning care, reviewing care, crisis care, treatments and other areas of life. Further information may be found on the CQC Community Mental Health Survey, 2014 webpage. For more information please see the NHS Surveys Development Report for Community Mental Health Survey 2014. In 2014, the Community Mental Health Service User Survey was substantially redeveloped and results from 2014 onwards are not comparable with previous surveys. For the second edition (September 2016), a new version of the data was supplied, with some previous errors rectified.
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The survey covered issues that affect the quality of care that service users receive and were identified as important to them. Topics included: health and social care workers, medications, talking therapies, care co-ordinators, care plans, care reviews, crisis care and day-to-day living. Some edits have been made by the depositor for confidentiality reasons. Sample variables provided by trusts (as described in the survey guidance) have been removed. Q45 has been recoded into another variable, 'full_gender' and Q46 has been recoded into age group; both use sample information if response data was missing. Q47, Q48 and Q49 have been removed due to very low numbers at trust level for many sub-groups.
Simple random sample
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Postal survey
