All Mortality rates articles – Page 31
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CQC to name trusts with highest death rates
Trusts with unusually high mortality rates that have sparked inspections will be named for the first time, plans revealed to HSJ show.
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Trusts with high death rates to be named
Trusts with unusually high mortality rates that have sparked inspections will be named for the first time, plans revealed to HSJ show.
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HSJ survey: Hospital managers act on Mid Staffs failures
Around half of hospital managers and other staff believe elements of poor standards found at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust exist at their own organisation, a HSJ straw poll suggests.
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DH team launched to reduce infant deaths
The Department of Health has launched a national support team to reduce differences in infant mortality rates in the face of a looming deadline.
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Chief executive resigns following mortality probe
The chair and chief executive of a foundation trust have resigned ahead of the first regulatory report triggered by mortality figures.
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Trusts fail to act on mortality alerts
Some hospital trust boards are neglecting figures that may highlight serious care failings, leading to patient deaths, the Healthcare Commission has said.
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Department of Health publishes mortality statistics
Statistics outlining progress on reducing overall mortality rates from cancer, circulatory disease, suicide and undetermined injury and accidents have been published.
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HSJ Knowledge
Publishing mortality rates - the HR challenge
The NHS Choices website has published death rates for four types of surgery at NHS hospitals in England. Claire Reynolds explains how this could affect performance management
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Academics doubt link between death and standards
Academic research has cast serious doubt on the link between hospital mortality rates and quality of care, raising questions over Department of Health moves towards routine publication of death rates.
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Leader
Patients have a right to know about mortality rates
The argument in the West Midlands over interpreting mortality rates is just a taste of the rows that will ensue once the Department of Health starts publishing outcomes data.
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NHS Choices to publish hospital mortality rates
Hospital death rates for four operations will be published for the first time on the NHS Choices website in a bid to help patients make more informed choices.
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Hospital death rates published
Death rates for four hospital procedures will be published by the Department of Health today in a move designed to help patients make more informed choices.
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Leader
Publish and be damned: death rates could improve outcomes
With quality now firmly established as the health service's new mantra, its measurement is the next step.
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HSJ Knowledge
Making progress on infant mortality
High infant mortality rates in disadvantaged groups make the latest inequalities targets tough to hit. But there has been some progress in this area, as Andy Cowper found out.
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Infant mortality rates vary widely, statistics show
There are large differences in the infant mortality rates of ethnic groups in England and Wales, according to new figures published today by the Office for National Statistics.
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Healthcare Commission to investigate high mortality rates
The Healthcare Commission is to investigate mortality rates at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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HSJ Knowledge
Born in Bradford project takes on infant mortality
Bradford's infant mortality rate is twice the British average. An ambitious project is tracking the lives of 10,000 babies in the archetypal deprived, multi-ethnic city in the hope of understanding why. Emma Dent reports. Pictures by Rii Schroer
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New infant mortality guidance
Guidance on reducing health inequalities in infant mortality has been published by the Department of Health.
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Review of heart transplant mortality rates
The Healthcare Commission is to carry out a preliminary review ofPapworthHospitalfoundation trust's heart transplantation programme after routine audit showed a slight increase in early mortality rates following heart transplantation.
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Comment
Mortality rate calculations are 'highly inappropriate and contentious'
Anyone picking up last week's Daily Telegraph will have seen the shock-horror headline on hospital mortality rates. This was typical media hype that did nothing to assist the discussion about encouraging improvement in the NHS, nor how we reduce inequalities across the country.