NHS league tables are more spin than substance
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NHS league tables are more spin than substance.
Editor—My hospital was last month awarded the coveted top ranking of three stars in the NHS league table. The kidney unit in which I work has 65 patients on the waiting list to start dialysis for kidney failure. Ten dialysis stations lie empty, which could accomodate all of them if the revenue was forthcoming, which it hasn’t been for many many months. Only when someone dies or receives a trans...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7364.596