More than 50 English hospitals still have worse mortality outcomes than QEUH in Glasgow

In November 2023, we could write for the period July 2022 to June 2023 : More than 50 English hospitals have worse mortality outcomes than QEUH in Glasgow

Today, we can repeat a similar tale for the period October 2022 to September 2023.

The funnel plot below, and previous examples reported here, comparing predicted deaths with actual deaths, shows two things in particular:

  1. No Scottish hospital had a significantly higher standardised mortality ratio than the national average ie all of Scotland’s hospitals are safe places.
  2. Glasgow’s QEUH is safer than average with, year after year, fewer deaths than its circumstances (poverty, general ill-health, smoking, drinking, poor diet, lack of exercise) predicted.

The funnel plot below for NHS England shows two things in particular.

  1. There is more diversity in England’s hospitals with around 10 more than in Scotland with greater death levels than predicted.
  2. Around 50 English hospitals have worse outcomes than QEUH in Glasgow

4 thoughts on “More than 50 English hospitals still have worse mortality outcomes than QEUH in Glasgow”

  1. Any death is very sad, and that’s even without the demonic pigeons at QEUH that seem to infest the minds of what is called “Scotland’s Media” that drop crap all over the place, plus the pigeons.

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    1. The QEUH has many specialist facilities and patients are flown or taken by ambulance from all parts of Scotland, especially when they are in a particularly serious condition. Because of the seriousness a relatively high proportion of these patients die. Such deaths are then recorded as having happened in the QEUH – which is true – but not recorded deaths in say Belfort of Raigmore Hospitals, for example, if the patients originated in the catchment of them.

      The media and opposition politicians could explain that but choose not to because they want to blame QEUH and, by extension the Scottish Government.

      Alasdair Macdonald

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