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NHS data explores weekend patient mortality
An NHS Digital report into seven-day service provision across the NHS has found worse outcomes for patients who are admitted at the weekend.
The experimental statistics discovered that patients admitted at the weekend to hospital trusts in England are more likely to die within 30 days of admission than those admitted midweek. It also found that patients discharged on Friday, Saturday and Sunday are more likely to be readmitted as an emergency within seven days than those who are discharged on a Wednesday.
Of the 137 trusts included in the indicator, 58 per cent had a significantly higher odds ratio of mortality at the weekend, and 16 per cent had a higher mortality rate on the ‘transition period’ of Mondays and Fridays, leading to ‘an increased likelihood of mortality for patients admitted at the weekend’.
Regarding length of stay, 52 per cent of patients admitted on a Saturday stayed for more than one day, compared to 47 per cent of patients admitted on a Thursday.
In July 2015 the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt delivered a controversial speech Making healthcare more human-centred and not system-centre, outlining his commitment to seven-day care off the back of variation in outcomes associated with weekend hospitalisation.
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