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16 July 2013

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

16 July 2013

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

12 February 2013

The NHS Commissioning Board has announced that it is widening its inquiry into hospitals with apparently worrying mortality rates.

6 February 2013

The Mid Staffs scandal has already left one legacy, in the form of a new mortality indicator for the NHS.

29 November 2010

One of two trusts identified by Dr Foster as having higher than expected death rates and more deaths than would

4 November 2010

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

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