“providing information to patients in the hope that it will drive up standards is dangerous… …If patients are not going to avoid a hospital that is involved in a massive scandal, that has been splashed across the news as having killed people, then it seems unlikely that patients will avoid a hospital on the basis of information on the NHS Choices website”
Anthony Laverty, Researcher at Imperial College London and lead author of the study “High-Profile Investigations Into Hospital Safety Problems In England Did Not Prompt Patients To Switch Providers“.
[…] and I’ve commented on some of the ridiculous things I’ve seen over the years (eg. the lack of evidence supporting the need for patient ratings, the naivety surrounding the privacy when they interact with patients within advertiser funded […]