All Mortality rates articles – Page 21
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News
Fourteen trusts rated worst by first official hospital death rate
Fourteen hospital trusts have been identified as the poorest performers in the first official hospital-wide mortality ratings.
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Children's care quality can be improved - study
The largest case-based study into children who died after surgery has found there was room for improvement in more than a quarter of cases.
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Older patients' heart care 'not equal'
Heart attack patients aged over 85 are less likely to receive specialist care from a cardiologist in hospital and vital heart medicines after leaving, according to research.
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Improved hospital IT would save 'thousands' of lives
The extended and better use of IT could dramatically cut hospital deaths across England, a report claims, after a Birmingham trust saw deaths fall by 17 per cent in a 12-month period.
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HSJ Knowledge
How a weather forecasting service can reduce COPD hospital admissions
Hospitals are routinely troubled with rising admissions and demand during the winter months, but using a Met Office forecast alert can help patients stay healthier, and help hospitals better manage their services.
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HSJ Local
Oxford Radcliffe to review 'significantly higher than expected' death rate
PERFORMANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust is to begin formally reviewing around 800 deaths a year after finding it has an unusually high mortality rate and was unable to identify what proportion of deaths were avoidable.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why accident prevention is a major policy issue for public health
The theory goes that prevention of accidents is better, and cheaper, than the cure. Tom Mullarkey argues that it’s now time for public health strategy to put this theory into practice.
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HSJ Knowledge
How care bundling drives down mortality rates in pneumonia care
The North West London Hospitals Trust, implementing a care bundle approach, has reduced mortality rates for patients with pneumonia. Trish Winn and Sunder Chita explain how.
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HSJ Local
Disparity over version of events surrounding patient deaths at Wexham Park
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners and providers in Berkshire are reporting different details of events surrounding the same patient mortality incidents, it has emerged.
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Critical care is risking lives, say surgeons
Thousands of patients who need emergency surgery are having their lives put at risk by poor NHS care and delays in accessing treatment, according to a damning report.
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HSJ Knowledge
How transparent incident investigations are helping to develop better care
Open, family-centred investigations into incidents of avoidable harm and death are essential to develop safer care. Craig White explains how this is being achieved in Scotland.
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Organ donor plans condemned by Archbishop
Plans to introduce presumed consent for organ donation could turn “volunteers into conscripts”, the Archbishop of Wales has warned.
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HSJ Local
Monitor 'red risks' Morecambe Bay trust over maternity concerns
PERFORMANCE: A health trust whose maternity unit is at the centre of a police investigation has been issued a warning by Monitor, days after being rapped by the CQC for failing essential safety standards.
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Research reveals disparity in UK bowel cancer survival rates
Stark differences in bowel cancer mortality rates across the UK show that people in certain areas are three times more likely to die from the disease, research suggested today.
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Patient outcomes could be threatened by HR cuts
Patient outcomes will suffer if NHS human resources work is allowed to deteriorate during the current period of reform and cost-cutting, a government commissioned report has warned.
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Exclusive: 500 avoidable deaths a year in London due to understaffing
There are more than 500 avoidable deaths a year in emergency care each year in London, a report obtained exclusively by HSJ reveals.
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'Misleading' cancer screening programme under fire
The NHS breast cancer screening programme “misinforms” women and fails to disclose the harms of over-diagnosis, researchers have claimed.
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Comment
'Real change in public health will be made more difficult if service transfers are delayed'
The positive steps in transferring public health services to local control will be marred by the delay of children’s services until 2015 under recent government proposals. Graham Burgess argues the public health strategy needs more coherence if local commissioning plans are not to be undermined.
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Drug-related deaths down on previous year
The number of drug-related deaths in England and Wales has fallen slightly, according to the latest government figures.
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HSJ Local
Legionnaires' death sparks hospital investigation
PERFORMANCE: A multi-agency investigation will be carried out into an Essex hospital after a patient with Legionnaires’ disease died.