On Tuesday, Britain's National Health Service medical director Prof. Sir Bruce Keogh, will
• Name 14 hospitals with excessive death rates, with hundreds of patients dying needlessly at each of them since 2005.
• Severely criticise the worst hospital, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which had 1,600 more deaths than would have been expected in seven years.
• Show that the warning signs were there for managers and ministers to see, including alarming levels of infections, patients suffering from neglect and appalling blunders such as surgery performed on the wrong parts of bodies. One of Sir Bruce’s advisers, Prof Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College London, calculated that nationally up to 13,000 patients died needlessly in that period. [Source]
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• Name 14 hospitals with excessive death rates, with hundreds of patients dying needlessly at each of them since 2005.
• Severely criticise the worst hospital, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which had 1,600 more deaths than would have been expected in seven years.
• Show that the warning signs were there for managers and ministers to see, including alarming levels of infections, patients suffering from neglect and appalling blunders such as surgery performed on the wrong parts of bodies. One of Sir Bruce’s advisers, Prof Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College London, calculated that nationally up to 13,000 patients died needlessly in that period. [Source]
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