Consultant mortality data goes online for first time, available  collated at NHS Choices.

take a look at the data

 

Read the news items and responses:

BBC News:  Surgeon data: ‘Historic’ move for NHS

Telegraph: Naming surgeons with high death rates will help end NHS culture of secrecy, says Sir Bruce Keogh

Guardian: NHS to name surgeons who don’t publish performance data

Daily Mail: The surgeons whose patients were up to 30 times likelier to die: NHS to publish death rates of doctors for the first time
 
GMC: Response to proposals to publish surgical performance data

BMA: BMA warns against simplistic surgeon tables

RCS: Royal College of Surgeons hails landmark publication of individual surgeons’ outcomes data as a watershed moment for surgery

HSJ: Will publishing surgeon performance improve outcomes?