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Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is to announce that senior NHS managers and hospital trusts will be held criminally liable if they manipulate figures on waiting times or death rates.
Trusts could be fined millions of pounds and managers jailed if they are found to have falsified data used by patients to select where they are treated.
Several NHS hospitals have been accused recently of seeking to obscure high mortality rates by ?mis-recording? the reasons for deaths. Such practices make it hard for regulators and the public to identify hospitals that have poor standards of treatment.
Nurses have also alleged privately that they have been told to ?massage? waiting time figures by changing the recorded time when patients are treated or discharged.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...pitals-fiddling-figures-to-be-introduced.html
Trusts could be fined millions of pounds and managers jailed if they are found to have falsified data used by patients to select where they are treated.
Several NHS hospitals have been accused recently of seeking to obscure high mortality rates by ?mis-recording? the reasons for deaths. Such practices make it hard for regulators and the public to identify hospitals that have poor standards of treatment.
Nurses have also alleged privately that they have been told to ?massage? waiting time figures by changing the recorded time when patients are treated or discharged.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...pitals-fiddling-figures-to-be-introduced.html