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CommentMedia Watch: the most wonderful time of the year
It is that time of year again, when the national media celebrate the annual publication of the Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2011.
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NewsExclusive: Dr Foster names 10 trusts overlooking fast recovery processes
Ten hospital trusts which do not follow evidence-based processes for fast recovery from surgery have been named by Dr Foster Intelligence.
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NewsDr Foster promises 'more collaboration' with trusts
Dr Foster has backtracked on plans to publish new indictors on cancer and obstetrics with this year’s Hospital Guide and promised it will listen to trusts more in future.
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NewsNHS should have single regulator, Sir Ian Kennedy tells Mid Staffs inquiry
Former Healthcare Commission chairman Sir Ian Kennedy has used the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry to call for one “overarching body” bringing together quality and economic regulation.
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HSJ Local
Hull trust received mortality review
PERFORMANCE: An independent review of a high hospital-wide mortality rate at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has recommended a series of improvement actions.
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NewsAlcohol causes 7 per cent of hospital admissions
More than 7 per cent of hospital admissions in 2009-10 were caused by alcohol, according to data analysis by Dr Foster Intelligence for HSJ.
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CommentThe hospital guide and NHS whistleblowers
Last week The Observer had its exclusive on the Dr Foster Hospital Guide, this week it got a telling off about it.
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NewsNo accord on mortality measures
A nationally agreed hospital-wide mortality indicator will not to be in place before the publication of this year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide, it has been confirmed.
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InformationStroke indicators
Istroke patients receiving treatment, with hospital acquired pneumonitis, or dying in hospital
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NewsHospital Guide consultation - share your views
HSJ readers have until 3 September to help determine the metrics that will be used in this year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide.
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NewsDr Foster consults on the Good Hospital guide
HSJ readers have been given the exclusive opportunity to help determine the metrics which will be used in this year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide.
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LeaderHelp shape the 2010 Hospital Guide
The history of Dr Foster’s Hospital Guide is a microcosm of the last decade’s debate over healthcare quality.
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InformationAHRQ patient safety indicator composite
Including postoperative haemorrhage, physiologic and metabolic derangement, respiratory failure, and pulmonary embolism
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InformationUrology basket
Including length of stay, day case rates, and standardised readmission ratios for urology procedures
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InformationMortality in conditions amenable to healthcare
Standardised mortality ratio of admissions from selected causes considered amenable to healthcare that resulted in death
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InformationPaediatric basket
Including umbilical hernia complications, emergency appendicectomies and medical circumcisions
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