Mid Staffs

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10 February 2015

Fiddling figures a jail crime from April

NHS directors and senior staff who publish false or misleading information could face a two-year jail sentence as part of
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11 April 2014

CQC consults on inspection regime

The Care Quality Commission has launched a month long consultation on its new regulation, inspection and rating regime.
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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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3 January 2014

Change at the top of Patient Opinion

Paul Hodgkin, the Sheffield GP who founded Patient Opinion, has stood down as chief executive, and James Munro, its director
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15 October 2013

Threatened trust implements new IT

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with its Medway electronic patient record system.
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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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16 March 2013

Govt plans law to stop “fiddled” figures

The government is thinking of holding trusts criminally liable for manipulating figures on waiting times and death rates as part
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5 February 2013

Power to the people

Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, argues that public feedback, not public inquiries, are the way
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4 November 2010

New mortality indicator for NHS

The NHS is to introduce a new standardised method for measuring death rates from April 2011. The review group set
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25 February 2010

Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS

The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in
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