Monitor to cast East Kent verdict ‘soon’
Monitor will decide whether to put East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust into special measures in the coming weeks, following a damning report by the Care Quality Commission.
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‘How Safe is my Hospital’ site launched
The Department of Health has launched a website that will let the public compare hospitals in England based on a number of safety indicators.
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Leeds checks credentials online
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become one of the first UK trusts to deploy an online credentialing system for healthcare industry representatives, aimed at improving patient safety and infection control.
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Patient safety reporting overhaul
The NHS is developing the National Reporting and Learning System to become an integrated reporting route for patient safety incidents.
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20 northern trusts publish data
Twenty northern acute trusts are publishing a range of quality and safety datasets today as part of a programme that will be extended to the rest of the country and other care sectors.
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Misleading data a crime – Hunt
It will become a criminal offence for NHS providers to supply false or misleading data about their performance, the health secretary has said.
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Trusts ‘ignore patient safety alerts’
A patient safety charity has alleged that around three quarters of NHS trusts have failed to comply with at least one patient safety alert issued by the National Patient Safety Agency.
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West Yorks report identifies IT concerns
An investigation into use of TPP’s out-of-hours system by West Yorkshire Urgent Care Service has concluded that it created “a significant risk to patient health” and left the service in breach of NHS regulations.
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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 from Dr Foster Intelligence. The NHS information Centre issued a tender for the production of indicators for NHS Choices after completing a review of the use of indicators such as hospital standardised mortality ratios. The […]
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First clinical director for informatics
The Department of Health has announced that it has appointed Charles Gutteridge as the first national clinical director for informatics.
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