7/13/2013, "13,000 died needlessly at 14 worst NHS trusts," UK Telegraph, Donnelly, Sawer
"The NHS’s medical director will spell out the failings of 14 trusts in England, which between them have been responsible for up to 13,000 “excess deaths” since 2005.
Prof Sir Bruce Keogh will describe how each hospital let its patients down
badly through poor care, medical errors and failures of management, and will
show that the scandal of Stafford Hospital, where up to 1,200 patients died
needlessly, was not a one-off. ...
The report, due to be published on Tuesday, will:...
Show that the warning signs were there for managers and ministers to see,
including alarming levels of infections, patients suffering from neglect and
appalling blunders such as surgery performed on the wrong parts of bodies....
Research carried out by one of Sir Bruce’s advisers, Prof Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College London, found that in some cases appalling death rates stretched back to 2005. ...
His analysis shows that in the last five years of the last Labour government, from 2005 to 2010, eight of the trusts had death rates well above the average in at least four of those years. ...
At the worst hospital, Basildon and Thurrock, the “mortality ratio” from 2005 until last year was 20 per cent above the NHS average, with up to 1,600 more deaths than there would have been if it had the average level of deaths among its patients.
However, from 2005 until 2009 the hospital was given a “good” rating by NHS regulators, first the Healthcare Commission, then its successor, the Care Quality Commission."...via Free Republic
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7/10/13, "GPs 'rationing hospital care'," UK Telegraph
Research carried out by one of Sir Bruce’s advisers, Prof Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College London, found that in some cases appalling death rates stretched back to 2005. ...
His analysis shows that in the last five years of the last Labour government, from 2005 to 2010, eight of the trusts had death rates well above the average in at least four of those years. ...
At the worst hospital, Basildon and Thurrock, the “mortality ratio” from 2005 until last year was 20 per cent above the NHS average, with up to 1,600 more deaths than there would have been if it had the average level of deaths among its patients.
However, from 2005 until 2009 the hospital was given a “good” rating by NHS regulators, first the Healthcare Commission, then its successor, the Care Quality Commission."...via Free Republic
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7/10/13, "GPs 'rationing hospital care'," UK Telegraph
"GPs are rationing patients’ access to hospital care, according to an
investigation which found that regional managers are cutting costs by making
it harder for patients to qualify for a host of minor procedures."
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