Mortality indicators

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13 December 2016

IT contributing to ā€˜missed opportunitiesā€™ on NHS deaths

Preventable deaths are going unrecorded in the NHS, and disjointed IT systems are partly to blame, according to a Care
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7 October 2013

Surgeon creates ‘Dr Foster rival’

A surgeon has created an online tool that allows people to view the performance of hospitals, measured against five quality
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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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11 June 2013

‘Longer Lives’ launched

Public Health England has launched a new website showing great variation in early death rates across the country.
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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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25 January 2013

Poor performers highlighted

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has released a new analysis of hospital mortality rates, identifying NHS trusts that
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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 ā€œflawedā€ 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 ā€˜Trust of the Yearā€™ with lower than expected
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26 November 2012

Clarity reduces mortality

Figures published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that the first hospital-based pay-for-performance programme in the UK has
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3 February 2012

Lansley says NHS should be open 24/7

The health secretary has said the NHS should be open seven days a week, after a report revealed that patients
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