The number of surgeons working at individual trusts varied from one to five (Table 3).
For these reasons, interpreting these reoperation rates derived from hospital episode statistics as indicators of the quality of care at individual trusts cannot be justified.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "As individual trusts respond to the Francis inquiry we expect them to look at the issue of nursing numbers in their hospitals.
As there were many comments about waiting, these were split within the framework to help identify departments where issues with waiting were occurring; this was particularly useful when the data were looked at for each individual trust.
National fines for missing targets have been scrapped for at least 12 months and replaced with individual trust plans aimed at improving performance and finances.
Mr Hunt set out a detailed breakdown of the problems identified at the individual trusts, but among the common themes listed were: Patients being left on trolleys, unmonitored for excessive periods and then being talked down to by consultants.
Finally, we examined the proportion of elective CS performed after 39 weeks at the individual trusts.
That is, we can explain individual trust by subsequent trust in the country of origin.
In the United States, trust of the home country affects individual trust only in larger communities (0.511).
