[Margaret Pilkington]

I don't place a lot of value on statistics.......because they are dependent on why they are being collected, who is doing the collection, what the criteria for inclusion/exclusion is, and how they are collated and interpreted.

Some centres of excellence will have higher death rates because they take on cases that other surgeons won't touch because they are too complicated....these people would die if they didn't get the surgery...but if that happened then they would not appear in statistics for surgery.

I don't think it does any good to enlighten C'mon, he sees governmental meddling in everything....oh, except he was blind whilst the last government were in power(well, apart from one post about the post office).