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Higher risk of death associated with weekend hospitalisation
皇冠体育app note sets out the approach taken to estimate the number of excess deaths associated with weekend admissions to hospital.
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This document supports the following statement in Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt鈥檚 speech Making healthcare more human-centred and not system-centred : 鈥淎round 6,000 people lose their lives every year because we do not have a proper 7 day service in hospitals.鈥�
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Published 13 August 2015