National audit of hospital mortality annual report 2020

This is the National Office of Clinical Audit’s (NOCA’s) sixth National Audit of Hospital Mortality Annual Report. The data in the National Quality Assurance Improvement System, National Audit of Hospital Mortality (NQAIS NAHM) web-based tool are extracted from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE) scheme records in 44 participating publicly funded acute hospitals nationally. Thirty hospitals have met the inclusion criteria to have their data included in this publication.