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3 December 2012

Trusts say Dr Foster data ‘flawed’

Trusts identified as performing poorly in the Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2012 have described the indicators used as “flawed” and
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3 December 2012

Cambridge Dr Foster’s Trust of the Year

Dr Foster has named Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as its ‘Trust of the Year’ with lower than expected
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24 March 2011

Tim Kelsey to be transparency tsar

Tim Kelsey, the founder of Dr Foster Intelligence who left last year for the consultants McKinsey and Company, is to
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29 November 2010

Dr Foster and Birmingham clash again

One of two trusts identified by Dr Foster as having higher than expected death rates and more deaths than would
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14 June 2010

Guardian publishes death rates on blog

The Guardian has released data on death rates following vascular surgery onto its datablog. The newspaper carried out a large-scale
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25 February 2010

Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS

The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in
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24 February 2010

Mid Staffs report demands stats overhaul

An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an “impeccably independent and transparent
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13 January 2010

IMS Health wins IC indicators contract

US-based healthcare intelligence company IMS Health has been chosen to produce clinical indicators for the NHS Choices website, taking over
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7 December 2009

Brown promises to unlock NHS data

Gordon Brown has promised to “radically open up data and public information.” Launching the ‘Putting the frontline first: smarter government’
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30 November 2009

Dr Foster names safety underperformers

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient
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