League tables could stifle innovation

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2002Hospital consultants have expressed concern at Health Secretary Alan Milburn’s plans to publish heart surgeon’s death rates. Milburn announced the move in response to the Kennedy Report, published last month, and it is expected the statistics will be available from April 2004, with tables for other types of surgery likely…

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