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Hospital rating list concern
Date published: 30 November 2009
THE Pennine Acute Trust is in the top 15 worst trusts in the country for patient safety with a higher than average death rate, according to a new survey.
The trust, which runs the Royal Oldham Hospital as well as hospitals in Rochdale, North Manchester and Bury, was ranked 13th worst out of all 146 hospital trusts across England.
Health watchdog Dr Foster gave the trust a patient safety score of only 8.9 out of 100.
Roger Taylor, director and co-founder of Dr Foster, said: “Over the last nine years, we have seen a steady improvement in hospital performance but unacceptable variation between hospitals still exists.”
The Pennine Acute Trust, which uses a different tool to check hospital mortality, said it has seen a steady improvement.
A trust spokesman said: “The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust monitors mortality on a monthly basis. Dr Foster makes year-on-year comparisons which is unhelpful.”
Concerns have also been raised that another healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission, has rated the 12 trusts at the bottom of the table either fair, good or excellent.
Mr Taylor said the commission was not designed to assess patient safety alone, and had used broader evidence such as patient experience.
To access the report, visit www.drfosterhealth.co.uk .
Comments
Why can't they use the same method or tool, surly death is death
Patient safety, Scores on the doors: Trafford 92.47, Airedale 91.78, Salford 66.4, Huddersfield 54.79. Pennine Acute trust 8.90. All scores out of 100. Basildon, subject of horror reports this last week scored 0.00. PAT are a lot nearer to Basildon than to Trafford. If you have to go into Hospital head for the high scores folks. Your life may depend on it. We don't come out top in anything. Do we? Only desolation, decay & neglect.
Trusts such as PAT would have you believe that they exist for the benefit of us, the patients. They don't. They exist chiefly to benefit ex Lab time servers & fully paid-up members of Brown's client state, with nil experience, who pocket troughs of money as petty bureaucrats trying to "manage" something that, if it need managing at all, would be far better done by fewer, better qualified people, in much more slimline, efficient systems. The money saved going into actual hospital care.
patient care is always at the fore front but if you think you could do a better job than why dont you ??
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As with any organisation wich grows to such a wide spectrum of operation to take advantages of the econonies of scale they require too many chiefs and not a enough indians, therefore the jobs that really matter at the sharp end are undersupervised which leads to sloppiness and poor results
By dumpygrumpy @ 30/11/2009 14:42:59