To measure NHS progress
Fabian occasional paper 8 This paper is based on the sixth Somerville Hastings memorial lecture delivered …
Deprivation and mortality – Where’s the connection?
An assessment of the Public Health England report Public Health England has launched a website …
Is the Longer Lives website useful to local communities?
The reasons for the wide difference in mortality rates across English local authorities is a …
Private Medical Treatment – numbers
Almost one in five NHS patients seen in secondary care now treated by private firms, …
Mid Staffs Mortality Data
Whilst attention has been paid to issues around Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR[1]) at Mid. …
The 65th birthday of the National Health Service
* Across the country more than 1.5 million patients and their families will be in …
Excess Deaths (Again)
I had hoped I had written enough about this but yet again we get the …
Avoidable Death
Anyone who has been at the sharp end long enough has had the experience of …
Mortality Investigations
Our local DGH is one of the 14 somewhat arbitrarily singled out for investigation over …