All Mortality rates articles – Page 18
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News
Minimum alcohol price set to become law
Plans for minimum alcohol pricing will be approved in Scotland today, which will become in the process the first part of the UK to pass the legislation.
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HSJ Local
Yorks & Humber trusts remain outliers on mortality
PERFORMANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care NHS Trust remain outliers on hospital-level mortality indicators, according to an SHA cluster report.
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Comment
'Lansley is right to say that age trumps poverty'
Health secretary is bidding to meet the core prinicples of the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Analysing the results of the largest ever stroke care survey
The Stroke Association conducted the largest ever survey of stroke survivors undertaken in the UK to get a better understanding of the issues facing stroke survivors in their daily lives. Joe Korner looks at the responses.
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News
Record low in post-50 cancer deaths achieved
The number of people in their 50s dying prematurely from cancer in the UK has reached a record low, new figures have revealed.
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News
Prostate cancer rates now top 40,000 annually
More than 40,000 men a year in the UK are being affected by prostate cancer, a charity’s research has show.
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News
Mortality rate indicator reveals seven acute trust outliers
Seven acute trusts have emerged as consistent outliers against the controversial mortality rate measure, with significantly more patient deaths than expected, analysis of the latest data reveals.
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Comment
Unemployment is bad for your health - now and in the future
Public health work at one primary care trust has shown how unemployment could have massive impact on a generation’s life expectancy, and why it’s important they get back to work. John Middleton reports.
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HSJ Local
Taunton and Somerset reports low death rates
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has a significantly better than average hospital standardised mortality ratio, and no difference between HSMRs for patients admitted on weekdays or at the weekend, according to latest figures from Dr Foster Intelligence.
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News
Minimum alcohol pricing 'will save lives'
Implementing a minimum alcohol unit price would save more than 1,000 lives each year, a report has claimed.
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Comment
Tim Wilson: thirty good men and true
Reassurance, respect, relationships, responsibility and reporting.
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HSJ Local
Trust aims to slash mortality by quarter in 5 years
A hospital trust has launched an ambitious five-year plan to dramatically reduce its death rates with a host of actions to improve standards of care.
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News
Trauma network adds five major centres
Five major trauma centres in the South are joining a national network to provide life-saving care to patients.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot Trust seeks to solve death rate problem
George Eliot Hospital trust has launched a plan to combat its “poor” mortality rate.
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News
Regional differences in accidental injury death rates
The number of people who die from injuries such as falls, road accidents and poisoning varies dramatically aross England, research suggests.
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News
Older cancer patients' treatment restricted, Macmillan claims
Elderly cancer patients are being “under-treated” on the NHS because of assumptions made about their ability to cope, a charity warned today.
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News
Alcohol blamed for surge in liver deaths
Deaths from liver disease in England have jumped 25 per cent with alcohol the major cause, men the biggest victims and fatalities more prevalent in the North, new statistics have revealed.
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Comment
'High volume surgery outcomes suggest there is safety in numbers'
Consultant surgeons Ross Naylor, Michael Wyatt and David Mitchell explain.
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News
New end of life guidance for acutes
Hospital managers and directors are to get new guidance on improving end of life care.
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HSJ Local
Wye Valley receives mortality alert
PERFORMANCE: Wye Valley Trust received a mortality outlier alert from the Care Quality Commission in November.