Pay-for-Performance Causes 400 Deaths at U.K. Hospital

By Filed under Hospitals on March 30, 2009 with 4 comments

According to the British newspaper, Guardian, the administrators at Mid Strafford NHS foundation were so obsessed with meeting the four-hour maximum waiting time admission target that patients were often quickly shuttled to unstaffed units used as ER patient "dumping grounds" without having their conditions adequately screened. 

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  1. Stephen C. says:
    March 30, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    One more reason to reject P4P. This is the only blog site where I can find stuff like this. Thanks.

  2. Vicki says:
    March 31, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Agree, Stephen. This is definitely the only blog site where you are going to learn that P4P can actually kill you.

  3. Alex says:
    April 2, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Somebody needs to send this to (soon to be) Secretary Sebelius.

  4. “Never Events” are Pay-for-Performance in Disguise | Linda Gorman | NCPA says:
    April 24, 2009 at 9:24 am

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