Monday, 30 November 2009

Wealth on Health

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk

Huge pay rises for shamed

hospital bosses... including

one who had an affair with

patient safety executive

surgeon

Twelve NHS trusts in England are 'significantly underperforming' according to the new report

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The report by healthcare analysts Dr Foster found that 12 trusts are putting patients at serious risk because of life-threatening errors and 'systemic' safety failings - even though eight of them were praised as 'good' or 'excellent' by the Care Quality Commission health watchdog only last month.

It also found that 27 trusts - a fifth of the total - have unusually high death rates - equating to almost 5,000 excess deaths.

More than half of the 27 are supposedly elite foundation trusts. The joint-tenth-worst, Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, is said by Dr Foster to have a death rate 15 per cent higher than the national average.

Yet its chief executive, Julian Hartley, saw his pay rise by 32 per cent from £125,000 to £165,000 when his trust attained foundation status in December 2007. He has now left to join South Manchester, another of the least-safe trusts on the list.

1 comment:

  1. The only premature deaths should be the government quangos like the Care Quality Commission and the ludicrously named NICE.
    These New Labour appointed nodding heads should be chopped off!!!

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