The campaign group, led by Dr Foster, has today written to the Secretary of State for Health asking him to help implement a Present on Admission flag to give a clearer picture of both in-hospital care and social care. Find… Read more
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Dr Foster launches new trust-wide performance dashboard
Dr Foster Intelligence has today (Monday 16 Jan) launched ‘TrustView’, an online ‘quick-look’ overview tool for non-specialist users within acute hospital trusts. The tool provides top-level information on clinical quality, clinical efficiency and market share (covering both the PCT and… Read more
Press Release: New report finds higher death rates at hospitals with fewer doctors at evenings and weekends
Dr Foster, the UK’s leading health information company, has today launched the 2011 Hospital Guide, the 10th edition of the guide, revealing for the first time levels of medical staffing in hospital at nights and weekends. The Hospital Guide shows… 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
Clinical commissioning groups must ‘be bold’ and not commission ‘more of the same’ says latest Intelligent Board report
The Intelligent Board 2011 focuses on Clinical Commissioning. The expert reference group believes these new commissioners should “Be bold”, and suggest they, “Don’t start from a position of commissioning more of the same.” The report, sponsored by Dr Foster Intelligence,… 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
Use of patient safety indicators in the Dr Foster hospital guide
We have been asked to provide guidance on how the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators will be presented in the 2011 hospital guide. The 19 indicators are based on definitions created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the… Read more
Important Update on SHMI and the 2011 Hospital Guide
Please find below an update about Dr Foster’s plans with regard to the new Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) and the Dr Foster Hospital Guide. 1. Summary Hospital-Level Mortality Indicator The SHMI is being produced by the NHS Information Centre,… Read more
Hospital Guide Consultation now closed
Over the last three weeks Dr Foster has run an online consultation on the proposed indicators for the 2011 Hospital Guide. This process is now closed however you can still view the indicators. We have raised awareness of the consultation… Read more