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Concern over NHS trust death rates
Professor Brian Jarman, a leading health expert has spoken of his concern about 25 NHS trusts which he says have higher than normal death rates.
Professor Jarman is emeritus professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London. He said that he had identified a number of NHS trusts with a higher than expected Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) and that, combined with other factors, it could indicate problems with patient care. Throughout the trusts he said that there were 4,600 unexpected deaths in total.
He has asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to investigate the 25 trusts and has sent the information to the Health Secretary Andy Burnham.
The BBC programme Panorama has already looked at the discrepancy between hospitals’ own assessment of their performance and the conclusions of the inspectors who carried out the investigations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8584600.stm
Professor Jarman is emeritus professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London. He said that he had identified a number of NHS trusts with a higher than expected Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) and that, combined with other factors, it could indicate problems with patient care. Throughout the trusts he said that there were 4,600 unexpected deaths in total.
He has asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to investigate the 25 trusts and has sent the information to the Health Secretary Andy Burnham.
The BBC programme Panorama has already looked at the discrepancy between hospitals’ own assessment of their performance and the conclusions of the inspectors who carried out the investigations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8584600.stm
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