No, up YOUR coding! Why the ‘45% more NHS deaths’ is nonsense
Please share this widely. The NHS is under propaganda attack yet again – the lie has a head start and the truth needs to catch up. Apologies to everyone that […]
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Guardian comes fully out of closet on ‘needless death’ distortions
Hot on the heels of its ‘correction’ item that represents the mainstream media’s first genuine acknowledgement that the hysterical claims of ‘needless’ deaths were as wildly incorrect concerning Stafford hospital […]
Mortality stats: govt ‘in bed’ with Dr Foster
Massive credit must go to author Simon Maginn (@simonmaginn on Twitter) for his big investment of time and effort to do the ‘grunt-work’ putting together the information I’m about to […]
At last: the truth about Stafford hospital starts to go mainstream
Last Monday, I attended a semi-clandestine meeting in Stafford. This meeting was to allow Guardian journalist Randeep Ramesh to meet Stafford hospital staff and some of those who have campaigned […]
Hospital mortality: fact, fiction or politics?
Open Democracy asked me to write an article for them, to draw together various threads of the hospital mortality issue. The article has been published today and looks at the […]
Prof Jarman: REALLY an ‘independent’ expert on NHS mortality stats?
On the day of the publication last week of Sir Bruce Keogh’s report (heavily and utterly misleadingly trailed by right-wing media and commentators) into 14 NHS Trusts, Health Secretary Jeremy […]
Why ‘13,000 needless NHS deaths’ is more nonsense-propaganda
Please share very widely. We need accurate information out there to counteract the nonsense. They’re at it again. Well, to be more precise, they never stopped – but yet again […]
Jarman: Leeds worst CHU in England! (Except for some others)
I don’t think there could be a much clearer example of the concerted, deliberate and wantonly inaccurate media campaign to undermine the NHS and achieve ulterior motives than today’s BBC […]
Then and now: the two faces of the BBC on Stafford NHS deaths
The BBC has, for months, joined in with the united – and completely misleading – media chorus about events at Stafford hospital. Every bulletin on the BBC News channel and […]
9/14 hospitals investigated for high deaths DON’T have high mortality?
As you’re likely to know if you’re visting this blog, I’ve written extensively on ‘Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios‘, or HSMRs, and the many weaknesses and potential for inaccuracy of a […]