The Stafford Hospital horror BBC NEWS is I am sure being covered by bloggers more able to explain it than I can so I have decided to post this BBC NEWS Hospital death data 'misleading' from the good old BEEB.
Birmingham University have said that comparing Hospital Death rates between trusts is an “unfair” way of rating your local Hospital.
Bollocks, if I had to go into hospital and found out that my Hospital had double the death rate of a Hospital ten more miles away, guess which one I would choose?
It’s common sense, it is necessary information, we are told almost every day to rate this and rate that in the NHS, the trusts MUST be forced to publish this information, because we deserve to know our chances of being killed while under their “Care”.
The other thing is of course that the “powers that be” should pick up on these stats much, much faster than they do, because when they don’t you get the Stafford Hospital debacle.
Unfair? Not for the patients it isn’t, the management of the trusts take enormous amounts of our money home in salaries; they must also take the responsibility when things go wrong.
“The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.” Harrison Christian
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Birmingham University have said that comparing Hospital Death rates between trusts is an “unfair” way of rating your local Hospital.
Bollocks, if I had to go into hospital and found out that my Hospital had double the death rate of a Hospital ten more miles away, guess which one I would choose?
It’s common sense, it is necessary information, we are told almost every day to rate this and rate that in the NHS, the trusts MUST be forced to publish this information, because we deserve to know our chances of being killed while under their “Care”.
The other thing is of course that the “powers that be” should pick up on these stats much, much faster than they do, because when they don’t you get the Stafford Hospital debacle.
Unfair? Not for the patients it isn’t, the management of the trusts take enormous amounts of our money home in salaries; they must also take the responsibility when things go wrong.
“The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.” Harrison Christian
Angus
Angus Dei on all and sundry
NHS Behind the headlines
Angus Dei politico
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