All Mortality rates articles – Page 24
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NewsAssisted suicide documentary defended by Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett has defended his documentary about assisted suicide, which showed the moment a millionaire hotelier with motor neurone disease took a lethal dose of barbiturates to end his life.
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NewsHealth secretary sets sights on improved dementia care
Improving care for older people and support for those with dementia is a “personal priority” for the Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon, she has told a conference.
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HSJ Local
Two women die after Royal Oldham A&E wait
PERFORMANCE: Two women died after they had to be treated in ambulances outside a hospital because its A&E unit was full.
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NewsExclusive: Commissioning Board will be told to save cancer lives
A commitment to improve cancer outcomes in order to “save 5,000 lives a year” is set to be included in the government’s first “mandate” for the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has been told.
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Loss of maternity services could harm Salford Royal death rate stats
PERFORMANCE: The loss of its maternity services, moves to reduce short-stay admissions and the introduction of a new national mortality indicator could push up the foundation trust’s recorded death rates, board papers have warned.
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NewsHospital death rate indicator delayed
A promised new indicator of hospital death rates is unlikely to be ready until the autumn, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBlood clot failings cost NHS £112m
The NHS has paid out £112m in compensation over the last five years after doctors failed to spot deadly blood clots, according to new research.
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CommentScaling up collaboration: the public health manifesto
I recently had the privilege of attending a lecture by Sir Michael Marmot, the guru of health inequalities and public health.
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CommentMichael White: time to address costly preventable failures
It being Easter weekend this column thought to give Andrew Lansley and his NHS reforms the week off. The secretary of state is on his own painful road to Calvary, carrying a legislative cross of his own making.
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NewsMulti agency investigation into Legionnaires' disease case
A multi agency investigation has been launched after a case of Legionnaires’ disease was confirmed in Scotland.
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NewsBig gap in cancer operation survival rates
A study of post-operative death rates for one of the most common cancers has revealed “worrying” differences between NHS hospitals.
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News'Sub-optimal' post-operative care putting patients at risk
Patients’ lives are being put at risk because of inadequate care following emergency operations, surgeons claim.
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NewsFirst after-death care guidance issued
A pathway for caring for patients after death has been developed in the first national guidance on “last offices”.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow e-learning helps empower clinicians to drive down infections
With managers facing up to the challenges posed by reform, alongside the “do more, better, for less” mantra of the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention agenda, the NHS is eager to find ways to further focus clinicians on the need to drive through improvements in patient care and outcomes.
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NewsHealth board investigates care home deaths
An investigation has been launched after four elderly residents died in one week at a care home.
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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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NewsNHS 'must publish performance data'
The NHS should undergo a culture change and improve services to patients by publishing performance data, according to a report.
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HSJ KnowledgeWorking as a team for better quality and safety in the operating theatre
Error in health service delivery causes an average of 354 “untoward incidents” each day. To bring this down, the challenge is to shift the focus from a blame culture to one of identifying opportunities to improve processes. Finnamore consultant Lucy Reynolds and University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwick trust’s Anne ...
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NewsMonitor 'happy' with Mid Staffs death toll
A former board director at Mid Staffordshire has spoken of his “amazement” that Monitor did not pick up on the hospital’s problems during its authorisation process to become a foundation trust.
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NewsMost serious incidents rise by more than a fifth
A rising proportion of reported incidents in NHS organisations involve deaths and permanent injuries, latest figures from the National Patient Safety Agency indicate.