I think someone with some spare time should start a "coalition
party" which runs campaigns on the basis that both the conservatives
and the labour party are demonstrably incompetent and should be at
all times chaperoned by a responsible adult. i.e. Menzies Campbell
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Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
R dot plots for Maternal mortality for WHO nation data 2008
Queens hospital in Romford and King Georges in Goodmayes were recently criticised by the health watchdog for extremely poor standards of care, and this quote from the guardian article suggests a level of nasty, that is beyond simple incompetence:
"The CQC report highlighted verbally abusive staff in the maternity unit. One of the midwives was heard to say to a woman in labour: "Hurry up, or I'll cut you." - http://is.gd/dxVosz
Surely this person should be arrested, or did i miss something?
The BBC and Guardian both covered the report from the care commission, and its makes for pretty grim reading given that they are my 2 nearest general hospitals.
The article in the Daily-Mail mentions a statistic that they may well have pulled out of their collective arse (who knows they seem to just lie about everything), that the maternal death rate at Queens hospital is 3 times the national average.
So I thought it would be worth to see graphically how that would look on the global charts if that was representative of the UK as a whole. The WHO data provides an age-standardized rate of 12/100,000 births, hence the chart is plotted with 2 lines at 12 and 36.
This is the maternal mortality dataset currently available on the WHO datasets websites. The 2 lines are first the United Kingdom, and where the United Kingdom would be if Queens hospital in Romford and King Georges in Goodmayes were representative of the UK as a whole.
"The CQC report highlighted verbally abusive staff in the maternity unit. One of the midwives was heard to say to a woman in labour: "Hurry up, or I'll cut you." - http://is.gd/dxVosz
Surely this person should be arrested, or did i miss something?
The BBC and Guardian both covered the report from the care commission, and its makes for pretty grim reading given that they are my 2 nearest general hospitals.
The article in the Daily-Mail mentions a statistic that they may well have pulled out of their collective arse (who knows they seem to just lie about everything), that the maternal death rate at Queens hospital is 3 times the national average.
So I thought it would be worth to see graphically how that would look on the global charts if that was representative of the UK as a whole. The WHO data provides an age-standardized rate of 12/100,000 births, hence the chart is plotted with 2 lines at 12 and 36.
This is the maternal mortality dataset currently available on the WHO datasets websites. The 2 lines are first the United Kingdom, and where the United Kingdom would be if Queens hospital in Romford and King Georges in Goodmayes were representative of the UK as a whole.
UK Stats: Deaths during "Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium"
I was fairly surprised how badly the UK fares in the Cancer Mortality statistics compared to our continental and Transatlantic cousins. So when I heard that some UK hospitals were reputed to have a very poor comparative record for maternal survival rates, I thought it might be informative to dig out the national numbers, given I had the spread sheet downloaded already.
Basically, the Office of National Statistics collates data from the causes of death as certified by a doctor or coroner and releases the data periodically. Typically there is good quality coverage in the UK, and the data is classified using ICD-10 disease codes for helpful comparative purposes. The last full year was 2010, for the which the data was released in Oct-2011.
So the head-line numbers for this rather unfortunate way to perish are as follows;
Of the 236,732 women whose deaths were registered in 2010 there were 35 for whom the final cause of death was recorded in the category "Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium". (Def. "puerperium" Medline)
The absolute counts of deaths (other age segments are zero):
Basically, the Office of National Statistics collates data from the causes of death as certified by a doctor or coroner and releases the data periodically. Typically there is good quality coverage in the UK, and the data is classified using ICD-10 disease codes for helpful comparative purposes. The last full year was 2010, for the which the data was released in Oct-2011.
So the head-line numbers for this rather unfortunate way to perish are as follows;
Of the 236,732 women whose deaths were registered in 2010 there were 35 for whom the final cause of death was recorded in the category "Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium". (Def. "puerperium" Medline)
The absolute counts of deaths (other age segments are zero):
| Total | Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-19 | 20-24 | 25-29 | 30-34 | 35-49 | 40-44 | |||
O00-O99 | XV Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | F | 35 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 3 |
Respiratory disease in the UK during the Clinton administration?
What is going on in the middle of this chart?
One of the comments was:
Hmmmm… what’s up with respiratory disease in the UK during the Clinton administration?
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