NHS negligence review: fifth of hospitals covering up negligence

[Northerner]

A government review suggests that up to a fifth of hospital trusts in England may be covering up mistakes, with an analysis of reporting incidents showing that 29 out 141 trusts did not record the expected number of safety incidents. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has created the Sign Up to Safety campaign, which aims to halve ‘avoidable harm’ such as medication errors, blood clots and bedsores by 2016–17, while also stopping a third of preventable deaths, equivalent to 6,000 lives saved.

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