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Phased resumption of children’s heart surgery at Leeds Hospital agreed
Reassurance given on immediate safety issues but hospital asked to improve monitoring of care Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary can begin a phased restart on Wednesday April 10, NHS England said on Monday April 8. It follows completion of the first-stage of a review by a multi-disciplinary independent clinical team which has been […]
NHS England gives further detail of assurances needed for children’s heart surgery to restart next week
NHS England today gave further details of the assurances that are being sought to enable Leeds Hospital to restart children’s heart surgery next week. It stressed the Trust’s decision to pause surgery was a prudent, precautionary step. Since then a review, which started last week, has been look in detail into: mortality outcome data and […]
Sir Bruce Keogh announces final list of outliers
On 6 February, in response to a request from the Prime Minister, Sir Bruce Keogh (the Medical Director) announced an investigation into hospitals that are persistent outliers on mortality indicators. Sir Bruce identified an initial list of five organisations that had been outliers for two years on the Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI), and said that […]
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh to investigate hospital outliers
As announced in today’s Prime Ministerial statement on the Francis Report, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh is to lead an investigation into hospitals that are persistent outliers in hospital performance and provide practical support. Full terms of reference for the investigation, including which measures will identify the hospitals to be covered, will be published at the […]
Sir Bruce Keogh to lead review of urgent and emergency services in England
The NHS Commissioning Board today announces that it is to review the model of urgent and emergency services in England. The review, led by Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh, will set out proposals for the best way of organising care to meet the needs of patients. The review team will work with clinical commissioning groups […]