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Patients should be made aware of the ‘different’ risks of having surgery in small private hospitals compared to larger NHS ones, a think tank has warned.
There were over 800 unexpected deaths and 900 serious injuries across England’s 465 private hospitals in the last four years, according to a report by the Centre for Health and Public Interest (CHPI) which studied available statistics, FOI responses and CQC inspection reports.
However the reporting requirements for patient safety incidents were far less stringent than for NHS hospitals, including on mortality data, it said.
According to the report, private hospitals often lack intensive-care facilities, equipment and medical support for when complications arise during surgery. The authors also warned that poor keeping of medical records was a recurring theme in CQC reports on private hospitals, including consultants often keeping records off-site.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commiss...te-hospitals-says-think-tank/20007735.article
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There were over 800 unexpected deaths and 900 serious injuries across England’s 465 private hospitals in the last four years, according to a report by the Centre for Health and Public Interest (CHPI) which studied available statistics, FOI responses and CQC inspection reports.
However the reporting requirements for patient safety incidents were far less stringent than for NHS hospitals, including on mortality data, it said.
According to the report, private hospitals often lack intensive-care facilities, equipment and medical support for when complications arise during surgery. The authors also warned that poor keeping of medical records was a recurring theme in CQC reports on private hospitals, including consultants often keeping records off-site.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commiss...te-hospitals-says-think-tank/20007735.article
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