All Mortality rates articles – Page 30
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CommentNeil Churchill: advice for managers on giving criticism
As a manager, you are meant to give three pieces of praise for every piece of criticism. That’s the minimum ratio experts believe is effective in encouraging good performance.
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NewsDr Foster misses out on NHS Choices mortality data contract
The contract to provide hospital mortality ratios and other information on quality for NHS Choices has been awarded to a US based firm.
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NewsCancer survival chances 'poor' in UK
The UK has among the worst cancer and heart attack survival rates in the developed world, a survey has revealed.
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LeaderSuccessful trusts must not let their stories be overshadowed
The past week has seen the NHS endure its worst reputational battering since the Mid Staffordshire scandal in March.
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CommentAre death rates fair? You decide
Drip, drip, drip. No, not the sound of a hospital “deep clean” in action, but the horror-on-horror, day-by-day reporting in the run-up to and wake of the publication of Dr Foster’s annual Hospital Guide.
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NewsCynthia Bower defends CQC in mortality furore
Care Quality Commission chief executive Cynthia Bower has defended NHS regulation after a string of events threatened to shatter public confidence in the safety of services.
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NewsAndy Burnham defends NHS targets
The health secretary has defended the government’s targets for the NHS in the wake of failings at several hospitals.
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NewsAction urged over cancer death rates
A cancer charity has called for action after it was revealed cancer sufferers in some parts of the country have significantly less chance of survival than those living elsewhere.
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NewsCall to overhaul primary cancer care
Up to 10,000 people die of cancer every year because their condition is diagnosed too late, research from the government’s cancer services chief has revealed.
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NewsMike O'Brien defends Care Quality Commission
The government has defended the Care Quality Commission after a report found a raft of underperforming hospitals and high death rates.
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NewsReport calls for urgent action at Essex trust
A damning report on the state of care at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has prompted the Care Quality Commission to seek urgent remedial action.
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LeaderNHS boards are still not getting the message
The latest Dr Foster Intelligence analysis of trusts’ mortality rates contains both good and baffling news.
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NewsPatient safety reporting still fails to reach boards in 1 in 10 acute trusts
One in 10 hospital trusts have confessed to not regularly reporting patient safety and outcomes at board level, more than a year after Lord Darzi’s next stage review said care quality should be “at the heart of the NHS”.
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NewsTrusts frustrated over ‘worse’ mortality rates
Hospital trusts are “surprised and frustrated” by latest mortality ratios that suggest their performance has worsened.
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HSJ Knowledge
Care of deteriorating patients
Salford Royal Foundation Trust signed up to Patient Safety First in 2008 and is one of the trusts to implement the reducing harm from deterioration intervention.
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NewsMixed success on mortality rate reductions
There has been mixed success in meeting targets to reduce mortality rates for specific causes, the latest data from the Department of Health shows.
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NewsHospital mortality ratio wrangling ‘compromises confidence’
Disagreement about the right way of measuring hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios is compromising “confidence in them and their effective use”, the NHS Information Centre has warned.
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News'Mortality rates rise when new doctors start work'
Death rates for emergency patients jump 6 per cent when newly qualified doctors start work, according to the largest ever study of hospital mortality rates.
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LeaderHigh death rates or just more data headaches: it’s no contest
The health service has taken a brave step on the quality road this week with the publication of the names of trusts over the last two years where unusually high death rates triggered alerts with the regulator.
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CommentSophia Christie on making an impact on male mortality
I can’t live without my burgers, my chips or the doner meat. I know they are bad, I can see the fat dripping out of it…