Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to publish the remaining stages of the Keogh Review into hospital mortality rates.

There are no further stages to be published. On July 16 2013 Professor Sir Bruce Keogh published a public report summarising the findings and actions resulting from the 14 investigations.

The individual investigations into the 14 hospital trusts followed a three-stage process:

Stage 1

Gathering and analysing the full range of information and data available within the National Health Service to develop key lines of enquiry. This included, among other things, examining data relating to clinical quality and outcomes as well as patient and staff feedback and views.

Stage 2

Rapid Responsive Review – a team of experienced clinicians, patients, managers and regulators went, after training, into each of the 14 hospitals and observed the hospital in action. This involved walking the wards and interviewing patients, trainees, staff and the senior executive team. The members of the review team then met to discuss and share their opinions before producing a report. If the review team identifed any serious concerns about the quality of care and treatment being provided to patients that it believed required rapid action or intervention, the chief executive of the hospital trust and the relevant regulator(s) were notified immediately.

Stage 3

Risk Summit – this combined a separate group of experts from across health organisations, including the regulatory bodies. It considered the report from the Rapid Responsive Review, alongside other hard and soft intelligence, to make judgments about the quality of care being provided. It agreed any necessary actions, including offers of support to the hospitals concerned. A report after each Risk Summit was made publicly available.

Further information is available at:

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/bruce-keogh-review/Pages/published-reports.aspx