Hospital Mortality Rates

Derek Twigg Excerpts

Tuesday 16th July 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

This is the problem. [Interruption.] This is the denial we are getting from the Labour party; it is denying any responsibility for these deep-seated problems in some of our hospitals. As Health Secretary, I intend to do exactly as my hon. Friend describes. In order to try to measure the progress we are making, we will this year for the first time be asking every NHS in-patient whether they would recommend the quality of care that they received to a friend or a member of their family, because in the end that is what this is all about.

[Derek Twigg (Halton) (Lab)]

In May 2010, had mortality rates been falling in NHS hospitals?

[Mr Hunt]

According to Professor Jarman on the radio this morning, the answer is that it has been falling slightly.