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You and Yours: Call You and Yours: Hospital standards

Call You and Yours: Hospital standards

16/07/2013

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Call You and Yours: Hospital standards

Consumer phone-in. Julian Worricker asks, what can be done to raise hospital standards?

Julian Worricker asks if hospital standards need improving, as the Medical Director of the NHS in England prepares to deliver his report into mortality rates.

As the Medical Director of the NHS in England prepares to deliver his report into high mortality rates at 14 NHS Trusts, Julian Worricker asks, what needs to be done to raise standards in hospitals?

The Keogh Report will set out what these trusts need to do to improve care. It's not the first report to make recommendations into hospital standards this year. The Francis Report called for minimum staffing levels and the regulation of health care assistants. 

We want to hear your experiences and your views. 03700 100 400 is the phone number, e-mail youandyours@bbc.co.uk mailto:youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text to 84844.

Presenter: Julian Worricker
Producer: Helen Brown.

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