National Vascular Registry: 2020 Annual Report Appendices

A national clinical audit commissioned by the Health Quality Improvement Partnership measures the quality of care for patients undergoing vascular surgery in NHS hospitals. The registry, part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme, was formed in January 2013. These datasets contain the results published within the 2020 Annual Report, relating to procedures performed up until the end of 2019.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking NHS trust performance based on reported clinical audit results.
• Analyzing trends in vascular surgery care quality over time up to 2019.
• Identifying areas for quality improvement in vascular services based on national audit findings.

Strengths

• Data is part of a national clinical audit commissioned by the Health Quality Improvement Partnership.
• Covers procedures performed across UK NHS trusts up until the end of 2019.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license for open use.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2019 cutoff.

Provenance

Source

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

Collection Method

National clinical audit data collection.

Time Range

Procedures up until the end of 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 16:14:53.298321; freshness should be verified.

Geography

UK NHS trusts.