All GEORGE ELIOT HOSPITAL NHS TRUST articles – Page 12
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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.
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Warks scales down charges
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire trust has drawn back from wholesale changes to hospitals - but is likely to centralise more services at the new University Hospital in Coventry, built by private finance initiative.
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No easy answers on difficile: the problem of acquired infections
Dysfunctional governance and concentration on target-hitting rather than patient safety contributed to two infection outbreaks at Stoke Mandeville, says a damning Healthcare Commission report. Alexis Nolan reports on the problem that's bigger than MRSA
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Ready and waiting
The enthusiasm of those who this year completed the NHS graduate training scheme must surely give heart to even the most unimaginative of the health service's critics. Paul Smith was caught up in the feel-good mood
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Shark repellent
NHS credit unions can offer staff cheap loans and a way to bypass undesirable lenders, but their numbers are still low, writes Barbara Millar