Mid Staffordshire Archives

14 November 2013

Power to the people

Paul Hodgkin says: get ready for Occupy the NHS Now!

3 September 2013

RCP pilots ‘Hospital Health Check’

The Royal College of Physicians wants to develop a ‘Hospital Health Check’ model of aggregating available data on trusts.

4 June 2013

Joe’s view of feedback

Joe McDonald is disappointed that the latest inquiry into the Mid Staffs scandal failed to tackle the regulatory regime. Now,

13 May 2013

Septic shock

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

26 March 2013

Francis response includes Ofsted-ratings

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that an ‘Ofsted style’ system of summary ratings for hospitals and care homes will

21 March 2013

Everybody loses, everybody wins

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

13 March 2013

Code red

Since the Francis report came out, the newspapers have been full of stories of more hospitals “fiddling” their mortality figures.

6 February 2013

National feedback system needed

The Francis report says there should be a nationally consistent way for patients to feedback online and in real-time about