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6 August 2013

Berwick adds to calls for transparency

An influential US safety expert, called in to advise the government on creating a ā€˜zero harmā€™ NHS in the wake
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16 July 2013

Keogh announces new mortality measure

The UK will become the first country in the world to create a national measure of avoidable deaths, NHS Englandā€™s
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16 July 2013

Keogh issues death rates warning

NHS England's medical director has warned against using two statistical indicators to claim that 14 trusts killed thousands of patients;
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The outside of Royal Bolton Hospital
13 May 2013

Septic shock

Roger Taylor, director of research at Dr Foster, asks how so many Bolton patients came to be coded as having
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21 March 2013

Everybody loses, everybody wins

In an extract from his new book, God Bless the NHS, Roger Taylor of Dr Foster argues that technology can
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16 March 2013

Govt plans law to stop “fiddled” figures

The government is thinking of holding trusts criminally liable for manipulating figures on waiting times and death rates as part
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15 March 2013

Nuffield Trust warns against ‘big stick’

The government should avoid the temptation to over-regulate the health service or to take a ā€˜big stickā€™ approach to getting
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12 February 2013

Keogh extends ‘outlier’ inquiry

The NHS Commissioning Board has announced that it is widening its inquiry into hospitals with apparently worrying mortality rates.
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6 February 2013

Indicators and placards

The Mid Staffs scandal has already left one legacy, in the form of a new mortality indicator for the NHS.
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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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