The National Vascular Registry is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement
Partnership (HQIP) to measure the quality and outcomes of care for patients who undergo
major vascular surgery in NHS hospitals in England and Wales. It aims to provide
comparative information on the performance of NHS hospitals and thereby support local
quality improvement as well as inform patients about the care delivered in the NHS. As
such, all NHS hospitals in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are encouraged to
participate in the Registry.
The measures used to describe the patterns and outcomes of care are drawn from various
national guidelines including: the “2014 The Provision of Services for Patients with Vascular
Disease” and the Quality Improvement Frameworks published by the Vascular Society, and
the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines on stroke and
peripheral arterial disease.
In 2014, the Registry published NHS trust and surgeon-level information for elective infrarenal
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) repair and carotid endarterectomy on the Registry
website. From 28 October, information on both procedures has been available on the
www.vsqip.org.uk website for all UK NHS trusts that currently perform them. For English
NHS trusts, the same information was published for individual consultants, as part of NHS
England’s “Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2013/4” initiative. Consultant-level
information was also published for NHS hospitals in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
for consenting surgeons.
This progress report aims to complement that information by (1) providing an overview of
care delivered by the NHS at a national level, and (2) describing various developments
within the National Vascular Registry. The Registry will publish its next annual report on
major vascular surgery in November 2015
