The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed plans to reduce the number of "avoidable deaths" in English hospital. 'Mr Hunt said an annual review of 2,000 cases of patients who later died would allow hospitals to be ranked according to avoidable mortality rates. Mr Hunt said there were about 1,000 avoidable deaths in the NHS per month.' (BBC News, 8 February) 1,000 deaths per month in order to save expenditure on medical care. That is how capitalism operates. RD
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