Latest news: HSMRs
Dr Foster publishes weekend mortality data
In preparation of the 2012 Hospital Guide publication in late November, Dr Foster partnered with the Guardian on a story focused on the variances in mortality when patients are admitted at the weekend. Read more
What’s in the Hospital Guide 2012
This year’s Hospital Guide will be published in late November 2012. It will be the 11th edition in the series. Dr Foster is committed to continuing to publish the Hospital Guide as an independent assessment of NHS hospitals which highlights… Read more
Press Release: Dr Foster launches latest tool to promote understanding between new mortality indicator and HSMR
Dr Foster Intelligence has today launched a new informatics tool called, Mortality Comparator, which enables trusts and commissioners to view and understand the new Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) and how it compares to the established Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio… Read more
Update on plans for the Hospital Guide 2011 and the publication of the Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator
Indicators for publication in the 2011 Hospital Guide Following feedback from customers and in line with Dr Foster’s Customer Promise, this year’s Hospital Guide will feature indicators currently used widely across Dr Foster’s tools and services. These fall into the… Read more
Planned upgrades to the HSMR Methodology
The Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College is making four methodological upgrades to the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) risk models to improve case-mix adjustment and make the methodology more statistically robust. The four changes are: 1. Only use data… Read more
Hull trust records high death rates across two different mortality indicators as Airedale picks up Dr Foster “Small Trust of the Year”
An independent healthcare survey published today has revealed that a hospital in the Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority (SHA), Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, recorded higher than expected levels of deaths across two mortality indicators in the year… Read more
Healthcare survey finds variable performance across the West Midlands
An independent healthcare survey published today has revealed that five trusts (The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)… Read more
Healthcare survey finds low mortality rates and good standards of orthopaedic care across the South West
The 2010 Dr Foster Hospital Guide has found encouraging signs in mortality rates across the South West Strategic Health Authority (SHA) with no hospital trusts recording higher than expected Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs) – often known as “death rates”, and four… Read more
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust wins Dr Foster “NHS Trust of the Year”
South East Coast trusts perform well in national guide, but patient care still variableAn independent hospital guide has awarded East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust NHS hospital trust of the year. The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2010 will be available… Read more
Two south central acute trusts register high mortality rates in new independent review of hospitals
The 2010 Dr Foster Hospital Guide found that two South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) hospital trusts, the Isle Of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust and Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust, recorded high Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs) in 2009/10. Across England,… Read more