Patient safety

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26 November 2013

20 northern trusts publish data

Twenty northern acute trusts are publishing a range of quality and safety datasets today as part of a programme that
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21 June 2013

Misleading data a crime – Hunt

It will become a criminal offence for NHS providers to supply false or misleading data about their performance, the health
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17 February 2010

Trusts ‘ignore patient safety alerts’

A patient safety charity has alleged that around three quarters of NHS trusts have failed to comply with at least
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4 February 2010

West Yorks report identifies IT concerns

An investigation into use of TPP’s out-of-hours system by West Yorkshire Urgent Care Service has concluded that it created “a
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13 January 2010

IMS Health wins IC indicators contract

US-based healthcare intelligence company IMS Health has been chosen to produce clinical indicators for the NHS Choices website, taking over
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5 January 2010

First clinical director for informatics

The Department of Health has announced that it has appointed Charles Gutteridge as the first national clinical director for informatics.
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16 December 2009

And statistics

Dr Foster and the CQC have both come under fire for how they rate hospitals. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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16 December 2009

NHS needs better trained prescribers

Doctors are to be formally tested on their knowledge of medicines before they graduate, it has been announced. The British
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8 December 2009

DH mandates incident reporting

The Department of Health has confirmed that it will end the voluntary system for reporting patient safety incidents to the
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30 November 2009

Dr Foster names safety underperformers

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient
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