Report into 14 NHS hospitals rejects claims that poor care killed thousands
"NHS medical director says it is meaningless to use mortality indicators to quantify actual numbers of avoidable deaths"
"...The review by the NHS medical director, Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, will dismiss the two mortality indicators that were used to justify the probe into the 14, which was launched on the day Robert Francis QC published his damning report into the Mid-Staffordshire care scandal.
Keogh's report will say: "However tempting it may be, it is clinically meaningless and academically reckless to use such statistical measures to quantify actual numbers of avoidable deaths."..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/16/report-nhs-hospitals-claims-care