by Oliver Green
The NHS is a huge organisation with almost one and a half million employees spread across the country working in more than 350 hospitals and other offices. With such a large organisation it is expected that at times thing will unfortunately go wrong. Some hospitals perform much worse than others though and to the point that there is no reasonable explanation for their bad performance. These are the worst hospitals in the UK.
In a recent study assessing hospitals for patient safety ratings hospitals were scored out of a possible one hundred on their performance. Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust placed bottom of the rankings scoring an absolutely astonishing zero. The hospital was described as having a poor care environment with low patient privacy and very worryingly a breach of infection control standards.
Another of the UK's worst hospitals is the Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust in Lancashire. With death rates significantly higher than the average in the UK the hospital has received a lot of criticism. A recent study into hospital deaths linked to low-risk conditions, following surgery, in hospital and within 30 days of discharge revealed that the Lancashire hospital was higher than the national average by 12% for in hospital and 17% over for 30 days following treatment.
In hindsight however the Blackpool hospital didn't do too badly when compared to the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust which came out with even worse results in some areas. For deaths in hospital Morecambe Bay came out with a 24% score above the national average while it also received 14% above for deaths within 30 days of treatment. After the revelations of this study the two hospitals outlined that they would be looking into the quality of care and patient safety.
The problem with UK hospitals isn't just in one or two either as in a recent study the department of health found 36 hospitals in England were way above the national average for death rates. They also discovered that in the last 13 years a total of roughly 8,000 deaths were caused by medical negligence.
<a href="http://www.medicalnegligenceclaims.org.uk">Medical negligence claims</a> are on the rise due the compensation culture in the UK.
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