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3 December 2012

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

3 December 2012

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

24 March 2011

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

29 November 2010

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

14 June 2010

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

25 February 2010

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

24 February 2010

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

13 January 2010

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

7 December 2009

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

30 November 2009

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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