Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham must report surgery results weekly to inspectors,who considered closing unitOne of the country’s best-known hospitals has been told to report weekly to inspectors on the results of its adult heart operations after it was discovered too many of its patients were dying during and after treatment.
The Guardian can reveal that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited the Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham before Christmas after it was alerted to the high death rate in open-heart surgery. Calculations by the Guardian propose that 17 people may have died over the final three years who should have survived.
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Source: theguardian.com