Jeremy Hunt plans disclosure drive to reduce health care mistakes

Individuals trusts ranked as bad are deemed to be not reporting mistakes sufficiently or properly. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

One in five hospitals are not taking patient safety seriously ample despite the Mid Staffs scandal, the wellness secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will claim on Tuesday as he launches a drive to decrease medical mistakes.

In a new evaluation physical exercise, all hospital trusts in England have been rated very good, Ok or poor for their openness and honesty in reporting and responding to breaches of patient safety.

Although 17.7% had been classed as good and 61.7% as Ok, the other 20.six% acquired a red rating, denoting poor performance. People ranked poor are reporting as well handful of patient incidents or not reporting frequently adequate, or personnel feel the trust’s response to problems has not been good enough.

The Division of Well being has published the figures ahead of the launch on Tuesday of a internet site – the very first of its type in the world – that will let patients and family members see how properly a hospital is doing on patient safety.

Hunt, who has presently pledged to conserve 6,000 lives over the next 3 many years by decreasing avoidable harm to patients, will also announce the “indicator up to safety” campaign for hospitals. Despite the fact that the wellness secretary will praise the NHS for its safety record, he will demand greater efforts to decrease harm.

These days will also see the publication of the very first data on nurse staffing amounts in each and every ward of each hospital, a modify agreed following the Mid Staffs scandal amid concern about widespread understaffing.

Jamie Reed, the shadow wellness minister, explained it was “staggering hypocrisy” for ministers to speak about openness and transparency in the NHS when they proceed to refuse to publish the official risk register covering the restructuring of the service in England last yr. “Meanwhile, far more than half of nurses now say their ward is dangerously understaffed, and more believe patient security has got worse above the final yr than far better. And the government has slashed nurse coaching spots, storing up a large staffing crisis for the potential,” he explained.

Jeremy Hunt plans disclosure drive to reduce health care mistakes