The current Scottish Government target to reduce Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMR) or ‘unexpected hospital deaths’ is 10% from December 2015 to December 2018. By end June 2018, the HMSR level had fallen by 11.2%, exceeding expectations. If an HMSR value is less than 1 then this means that the number of deaths within 30 days of admission for a hospital is fewer than predicted.
Notably there were no hospitals with a significantly higher HMSR (bad) on this measure and two, Western General (0.66) and Ninewells (0.7) had a significantly lower HMSR (good).
Other recent good news for NHS Scotland:
Cancer mortality rates fall 10% but Reporting Scotland ignore it
Scottish hospital deaths fall by 9.2% despite increased demand and rising crude mortality rates*
Talking-up Scotland 
Yet again John the BBC has denied you a surprise, they did overlook the good, less dead story and seemed to be running with the UK’s piss poor world league position in the pancreatic cancer stakes, we’re 49th. I take it Scotland is also better at this than other parts of the UK because no attempt was made to analyse/separate out the different national health services, “just bad, need to do better”
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Ah didn’t see that one. No sign on ISD.
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Will they report ? Its a No.
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