It sought to answer a good question: what happened to hospital performance during that time?
Hospital performance data should be publicly available to consumers, so we can choose doctors and hospitals with the best records.
They also have access to Definity's database of 800, 000 doctors, showing the price per visit and some rough measures of hospital performance.
The hospital saw its performance rating drop from two to zero stars in the latest NHS league tables.
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The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust apologised unreservedly for its failures and says the Francis report is "rightly damning" of the hospital's performance at the time.
In February the hospital had the worst performance in the East of England for delays in receiving patients from ambulances and delivering them to the accident and emergency department.
He strongly defended Circle's work at Hinchingbrooke, saying that it had turned round the hospital's clinical performance, but said it was too soon to judge whether the contract had been a success.
Robert Harrison, the hospital's director of performance and delivery, said there was no one clear cause for the rise in patient numbers.
Last year, he announced plans to classify the performance of English hospital trusts using a simple traffic-light system of green, amber and red.
In September NHS Norfolk found the hospital still had the worst performance for delays with patients waiting at least an hour before being admitted.
It failed to meet a target of maximum 15 month waits at the end of March this year because of the poor performance of one hospital meant the NHS failed to meet that target.
The Northern Health Trust has been under considerable pressure, mainly due to the poor performance of the Antrim Area Hospital's accident and emergency department.
If one looks at the performance of HCA hospitals on the national standard measures of clinical performance as published on CMS Hospital Compare, one would find that HCA is among the very best performing healthcare providers in the nation.
The commission will also carry out national reviews to improve performance in areas including children's hospital services, hospital acquired infection, heart failure, substance misuse, tobacco control and mental health.
Monitor said it was also taking action against Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust because of its "board governance and financial performance".
Mr. Armstrong refused to address a story that had caused significant controversy during his career: an episode in 1996 in which some people said they had heard him admit using performance-enhancing drugs to a doctor inside an Indiana hospital room.
It might have been her last performance outside of Tanzania because shortly after she ended up in hospital for a few weeks.
As part of the review process, each hospital was visited by a panel of experts and given a score based on its performance.
As part of the NHS review process, each hospital was visited by a panel of experts and given a score based on its performance.
And Dureau's performance was all the more remarkable given that he started the week in hospital after taking a heavy knock late on against Warrington last Sunday.
The Great Western Hospital in Swindon is meeting essential safety standards, according to the organisation that monitors its performance.
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The NHS was not monitoring doctors performance nationally, the various medical organisations were not doing it either, nor was the hospital trust.
Pay for performance programs: Providers can be financially rewarded for better outcomes in various situations such as reducing hospital errors and minimizing near-term hospital readmissions.
That aspect of the deal applies to the whole of the UK, as does the introduction of new incentives into the performance-related pay part of the GP pay package to tackle the growing problem of unnecessary hospital admissions.
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Mr Harrison said the hospital had managed to maintain standards of care but "staff have to work very hard to deliver that level of performance".
As of Oct 1, as many large hospital systems already know, CMS will begin assessing penalties to hospitals with large numbers of re-admissions, poor performance on certain core measures of clinical healthcare, and poor patient satisfaction scores.
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