IT contributing to ‘missed opportunities’ on NHS deaths
Preventable deaths are going unrecorded in the NHS, and disjointed IT systems are partly to blame, according to a Care Quality Commission report.
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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 domains.
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Keogh announces new mortality measure
The UK will become the first country in the world to create a national measure of avoidable deaths, NHS England’s medical director says.
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‘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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Indicators and placards
The Mid Staffs scandal has already left one legacy, in the form of a new mortality indicator for the NHS. But questions remain about how it is constructed; and how useful trust-level indicators are, anyway. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Poor performers highlighted
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has released a new analysis of hospital mortality rates, identifying NHS trusts that are performing worse than expected.
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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 questioned the organisation’s ability to assess new integrated care trusts.
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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 rates on two of four mortality measures.
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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 reduced mortality rates in North West England.
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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 admitted to hospital on the weekend have a significantly higher chance of dying over the next month than those admitted on a weekday.
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