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

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

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

Roger Taylor, director of research at Dr Foster, asks how so many Bolton patients came to be coded as having

In an extract from his new book, God Bless the NHS, Roger Taylor of Dr Foster argues that technology can

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

The government should avoid the temptation to over-regulate the health service or to take a ‘big stick’ approach to getting

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

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

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

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