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Sir Brian Jarman says he sent former health secretary Andy Burnham a list of hospitals with higher-than-average death rates but no action was taken.
More than 20,000 lives could have been saved if government ministers and the NHS had paid attention to warnings about high death rates in hospitals, according to a government health adviser.
Professor Sir Brian Jarman, who co-founded the health statistics and research service Doctor Foster, said he had sent the then health secretary Andy Burnham a list of hospitals with higher-than-average death rates in 2010, but no action was taken.
Several of those hospitals are now the subject of a government review into their high mortality ratios.
Burnham rejected Jarman's claims that his warnings were ignored and said he acted to uncover failings in care.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/16/ignored-nhs-hospital-warning-claims
More than 20,000 lives could have been saved if government ministers and the NHS had paid attention to warnings about high death rates in hospitals, according to a government health adviser.
Professor Sir Brian Jarman, who co-founded the health statistics and research service Doctor Foster, said he had sent the then health secretary Andy Burnham a list of hospitals with higher-than-average death rates in 2010, but no action was taken.
Several of those hospitals are now the subject of a government review into their high mortality ratios.
Burnham rejected Jarman's claims that his warnings were ignored and said he acted to uncover failings in care.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/16/ignored-nhs-hospital-warning-claims