Major surgery death rates published

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It is the first time anywhere in the world that a Government has exposed the mortality rates of different surgical teams to scrutiny in this way.

NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh said it would be followed by the release of information on different procedures in the months to come.

He welcomed the fact that no trusts fell below the expected standard for mortality on any of the four procedures in question: emergency and elective ops on abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) - one of the most common serious heart problems in the UK - hip replacements and knee replacements.

And he hailed the performance of a handful of trusts where survival rates were better than the expected range - Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, University Hospitals of Leicester Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust for elective AAA repair, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Trust for emergency AAA repair and East Kent Hospitals Trust for knee replacements.

Information published on the NHS Choices website www.nhs.uk today shows that the survival rate at the vast majority of hospitals in England was "within the expected range" on all four measures.