All Mortality rates articles – Page 26
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News
UK heart surgery survival best in Europe
Patients undergoing heart surgery in England and Wales have a greater chance of survival than many other European countries, a report has suggested.
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News
Quarter of cancers found during emergency care
Nearly a quarter of cancer diagnoses in England are made when patients arrive at hospital in an emergency, a study has found.
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News
UK women 'more likely to die of cancer'
Women in the UK are more likely to die of cancer than in the rest of Europe, figures have revealed.
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Comment
The national public health service
What will the new national public health service look like?
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News
Elderly miss out on post surgical care
Managers have been urged to improve the treatment of elderly patients after a survey found that only a third of older patients who died in hospital following surgery received good care.
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Leader
The new mortality indicator suffers from mixed messages
The debate over how hospital mortality should be measured and whether those measures reveal anything useful has rumbled on for the last decade.
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News
New hospital death rates to be published in April
An official NHS death rate for hospital trusts will be published within six months and must not be ignored, the Department of Health was due to announce today.
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News
Dr Foster sticks with alternative death rate
One of the most prominent methods of comparing hospital death rates has been the hospital standardised mortality ratio, promulgated by firm Dr Foster and used to create its annual Hospital Guide since 2001.
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News
Male life expectancy increases to 78
Life expectancy for men has increased by almost three years in the last decade, closing the gender gap with women, government figures showed today.
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News
Pledge to cut anti-psychotic drug use
A cut in the use of anti-psychotic drugs for patients with dementia is among a number of pledges put forward by a new coalition of 44 organisations.
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News
Guide hopes to avoid death rate panic
The NHS is launching a coordinated attempt to manage the reaction to this year's Dr Foster Hospital Guide, due next month.
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News
Government urged to plan for ageing population
A charity has urged the government to plan for the “significant challenges” of funding an ageing population as new figures showed more people than ever are celebrating their 100th birthday.
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Comment
Early cancer diagnosis could save lives
There is great potential for GPs to improve detection of cancers
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning for outcomes
The recent report from The Nuffield Trust/The King’s Fund Where next for commissioning in the English NHS? (Smith et al 2010) describes the Health Service as reaching a ‘fork in the road’.
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HSJ Knowledge
The NHS Health Check programme
Due to a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality, both NHS Stoke on Trent and NHS Birmingham East & North have implemented their NHS Health Check programmes since 2008 by piloting various delivery strategies to ensure population-wide coverage.
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Comment
'Time to consider the benefits and flaws of the single minded pursuit of targets'
Medicine, it has been suggested, is as much an art as a science.
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News
Scots twice as likely to die from alcohol
Scottish people are more than twice as likely to die as a result of alcohol than those born in England and Wales who live north in Scotland, new research suggests.
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News
Scottish life expectancy improving
Life expectancy levels are increasing but Scotland still has some of the lowest rates in Europe, official statistics showed today.
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News
HIV cases predicted to rise
The NHS is braced for a sharp rise in patients seeking treatment for HIV, figures show.
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning for outcomes
The report from The Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund Where next for commissioning in the English NHS? describes the Health Service as reaching a “fork in the road”.