All Bruce Keogh articles – Page 14
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CommentAndy Jones on defining NHS quality
The health consumer gets it, Lord Darzi gets it and framed an entire review around it, Sir Bruce Keogh certainly got it during his time as president of the Cardiothoracic Society, and the outgoing chief medical officer has dedicated a working lifetime to it.
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NewsDH explains QIPP plans to 340,000 clinicians
The Department of Health has distributed more than 340,000 copies of a document explaining the need for efficiency savings to clinicians.
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NewsDH takes hold of death ratio debate
The Department of Health is taking action to ensure the NHS agrees a way of measuring and reporting hospitals’ death rates, in response to the furore prompted by last year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide.
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LeaderBurying the NHS mortality row will clear the way for quality push
The Department of Health is trying to get a grip on the toxic issue of hospital standardised mortality ratios.
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NewsNHS quality accounts: quality is becoming an accountable business
This year will see the first tranche of reports intended to show how trusts are engaging with quality across all their services. Dave West looks at how this could represent a step change in health organisations’ accountability
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NewsQuality board to adopt 'values' in bid to avoid further rows
The Care Quality Commission, Monitor, Dr Foster Intelligence and others are being asked to follow a set of “values” in the hope of avoiding a repeat of last year’s row over quality reporting.
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NewsClot prevention is 2010-11 quality priority
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has said preventing venous thromboembolism will be the top clinical priority for improving quality and productivity in hospitals in 2010-11.
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NewsSafety outcry is ‘mandate’ for NHS quality
Public outcry about apparently unsafe hospitals gives the health service a mandate to put quality ahead of finance in planning and providing services, the NHS medical director has said.
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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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Information04 Sir Bruce Keogh
If, in five or 10 years’ time, a patient is able to get detailed information about the numbers of operations every surgical team carries out, their outcome and how that compares with other specialists, before deciding whether they want a surgeon to cut into them Sir Bruce Keogh will be ...
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NewsPatient safety incidents up 12 per cent
The number of patients who have been involved in safety incidents while undergoing NHS treatment has risen by 12 per cent in six months.
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NewsNHS East of England faces DH assurance test
NHS East of England has been told it needs to adopt a more “bottom-up approach” to supporting primary care trusts in the region.
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NewsQuality accounts: trusts to pick their own performance measures
The Department of Health has proposed that quality accounts will not include any mandatory clinical or performance data.
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NewsNHS drug errors 'may top 860,000'
The number of mistakes involving NHS patients being given the wrong medication may total 860,850, according to the National Patient Safety Agency.
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NewsFirst NICE quality standards will include stroke
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to create its first quality standards on stroke, dementia, neonatal care and venous thromboembolism.
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NewsJim Easton to continue Lord Darzi's work on NHS quality
The Department of Health’s new head of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention, Jim Easton, has vowed to “follow through” on Lord Darzi’s commitment to quality.
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CommunitySir Bruce Keogh cuts up rough
The normally charming NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh told HSJ that medical managers who think they can carry out a couple of operations a week are “just crazy”, and “nobody would regard you as a hard-hitting surgeon”.
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NewsBruce Keogh tells doctors to ‘seize control of NHS’
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has told clinicians to “stop whinging” and “seize control” of the NHS.
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NewsCzars to focus on cost cutting as well as quality
Reducing costs is becoming an integral part of the role of the Department of Health’s czars.
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LeaderNHS cuts will be chance for staff to be new radicals
Existing NHS systems will not cope with the financial crisis enveloping the public sector.