MiDavies – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2015-09-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce avoidable mortality in hospitals.

Jane Ellison

This Government is strongly committed to improving patient safety, including encouraging greater transparency about the performance of hospitals against key indicators for safety.

We are leading an ambitious programme of work to help trusts understand and act on their own mortality rates: the focus of this work is to support improvement at local level.