All Mortality rates articles – Page 13
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HSJ Knowledge
Can Mandela's model for restorative justice work in healthcare?
Healing, not punishment
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News
DH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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News
CQC revises intelligent monitoring tool
Acute trusts will get longer to check the data in the Care Quality Commission’s Intelligent Monitoring Tool before it is made public under a series of changes due to be announced by the regulator today.
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News
Mortality ratio information identifies new 'outliers'
Six trusts have been identified as having a “persistently” higher than expected mortality rate according to the summary hospital-level mortality indicator.
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Comment
The information revolution hasn't stopped care failings
Access to data isn’t improving hospital care
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News
Deaths from three cancers 'to fall'
The number of people dying from breast, prostate and bowel cancer will almost halve in the three decades up to 2020, new figures suggest.
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News
Dr Foster identifies 13 trusts with high mortality ratios
Thirteen hospital trusts have higher than expected mortality indicator scores, according to an extract from the latest report by health analytics firm Dr Foster which has been shared exclusively with HSJ.
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News
Higher death rate NHS trusts named
Seven NHS trusts have higher than expected death rates for patients who die in hospital or within 30 days of discharge, according to new data.
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News
'Link' between mortality rates and doctor sanctions to be probed
The General Medical Council has told HSJ it will investigate an apparent statistical link between high mortality rates and the numbers of doctors receiving a warning or sanction.
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HSJ Local
Taunton investigating weekend mortality
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust is investigating why deaths have been higher than expected at weekends, commissioner board papers reveal.
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Comment
Get the measure of what patients really want
Mobile technology can help improve the patient experience
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HSJ Local
South West hospitals perform well against SHMI
PERFORMANCE: Five trusts in the south west had higher than expected mortality under the standardised hospital mortality indicator.
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HSJ Knowledge
Putting an end to high weekend mortality rates
CCGs and providers cane work together to deliver safer care 24/7
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HSJ Local
Death rates fall at George Eliot
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital trust is reporting improved performance on mortality rates.
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HSJ Local
Trust responds to Keogh by centralising complex surgery
STRUCTURE: North Cumbria University Hospitals will tomorrow take the first steps towards centralising all of its complex surgery onto one site, at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.
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HSJ Knowledge
Putting a stop to preventable deaths
Using morbidity and mortality meetings to help reduce deaths in hospitals
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News
PHE says flu and cold weather to blame for spike in excess deaths
The national public health oversight body has said excess deaths during winter 2012-13 “would seem to be” due to “a combination of circulating influenza and cold weather”.
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News
Fewer inquests held for women than men
Doctors are less likely to report the death of a woman to a coroner than they are a man’s, a study has found.