Dr Foster is the leading provider of comparative information on health and social care services
Dr Foster's online tools and consumer guides enable both health and social care users to make better informed decisions
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The 2012 Hospital Guide
My Hospital Guide, the online extension to the Hospital Guide, is an interactive site where healthcare professionals and the public can interrogate data from the guide and share their views.
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Quality healthcare made simple with the Hospital Guide
Putting yourself in good hands has never been easier using the Hospital Guide. Compare the performance records of NHS hospitals and search for local healthcare that matches your needs. Our guide to NHS hospitals gives you the information to make the right choice. Also search our directory of private hospitals.
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Consultant Guide
This searchable database can help you find a suitable specialist for your needs using our unique mapping of specialists to conditions and procedures. Search our database of consultants to find the doctors that could treat you, their areas of specialty and where they are based.
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Dr Foster's medical dictionary
Dr Foster's medical dictionary contains definitions of conditions, treatments, diagnostic tests and other medical information.You can also scroll through the full A-Z medical dictionary index.
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Latest news
The 2012 Hospital Guide
Demonstrating Dr Foster's commitment to publicly available data, the Hospital Guide empowers patients and increases transparency in healthcare.
The 2012 Hospital Guide reveals the quality of care provided in the NHS and rates trusts on clinical efficiency for the very first time.
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Trust of the Year
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded the Dr Foster 2012 Trust of the Year, with lower than expected rates on two of four mortality measures and a good score on our clinical efficiency index.