Hospital at Night nomination

doi:10.1136/bmj.b644

Published 17 February 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b644
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b644

Letters

BMJ awards

Hospital at Night nomination

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I was surprised to see the Hospital at Night team nominatedfor a BMJ award in the category excellence in learning and education.¹I was also interested to see the description of the scheme:"The programme enhances patient safety and outcomes and supportsmedical training and service delivery."²

The Hospital at Night team recently produced a report that haslooked at patient outcomes in more detail than the initial pilotstudies.³ The only conclusions relating to outcomes are describedas "appearing to show it is as safe as other forms of care"and that it reduces "the number of deaths within two days ofadmission and the number of deaths within two days of surgery/procedure—thereduction in the sites studied [being] greater than the allEngland average." The first statement claims Hospital at Nightto be the same only in terms of patient safety. The evidencefor the second statement . . . [Full text of this article]