Francis

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7 April 2015

Wolfram asked to help on staff model

A London professor is working with two NHS trusts in the Midlands and computational knowledge firm Wolfram Research on a
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6 February 2014

Better info needed for Francis response

NHS trusts may be struggling to obtain the information they need to respond effectively to the Francis Inquiry, the Nuffield
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18 December 2013

Joe’s view: All I want for Christmas

A Christmas Eve misunderstanding once led Joe McDonald to thump someone with a Tracey Island. He doesn’t want similar problems
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19 November 2013

Fiddling with figures a crime

It will become a criminal offence for NHS care providers and senior managers to submit misleading data, under plans released
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3 September 2013

RCP pilots ‘Hospital Health Check’

The Royal College of Physicians wants to develop a ‘Hospital Health Check’ model of aggregating available data on trusts.
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6 August 2013

Berwick adds to calls for transparency

An influential US safety expert, called in to advise the government on creating a ‘zero harm’ NHS in the wake
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18 July 2013

All trusts rated by 2015

All NHS trusts will have an ‘Ofsted-style’ rating by the end of 2015 under new hospital inspection plans announced by
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16 July 2013

Keogh announces new mortality measure

The UK will become the first country in the world to create a national measure of avoidable deaths, NHS England’s
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16 July 2013

Keogh issues death rates warning

NHS England's medical director has warned against using two statistical indicators to claim that 14 trusts killed thousands of patients;
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1 July 2013

‘Empty plinth’ to fill at EHI Live 2013

EHI Live 2013 has an ‘empty plinth’ in its conference programme; like its famous counterpart in London’s Trafalgar Square, the
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