Blog tagged as: Measurement and performance

4th December 2012 | Comments: 1
The NHS Commissioning Board, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and providers need to be held to account, with plaudits if they excel, and consequences if they fall short of expected standards.
28th November 2012 | Comments: 2
Having spent the first half of the Parliament legislating for radical changes to the organisation of the NHS, the government now needs to focus on the mundane but much more important challenge of implementing and executing the service changes on which its record will ultimately depend.
9th August 2012 | Comments: 11
An emergency admission to hospital is a disruptive and unsettling experience, so surely we owe it to our patients to reduce the current variation between areas?
12th June 2012 | Comments: 13
Why has the British public's satisfaction with the way the NHS runs taken a nose dive in 2011 – falling from 70 per cent (its highest ever level) to 58 per cent?
29th May 2012 | Comments: 5
Anna Dixon discusses whether asking patients what care they wanted could be a much simpler solution towards making savings.
21st May 2012
Will the Department of Health’s long-awaited Information Strategy transform health and social care information as we know it today?
15th May 2012 | Comments: 11
What did the participants who ventured to Kaiser in our recent study tour learn from the experience?
15th March 2012
Nearly two years ago the government consulted on its aim to achieve an ‘Information Revolution’. So what should the new strategy say if it is to start a revolution?
2nd February 2012
The variability in the quality of neurological services is clear. Catherine Foot asks if national strategies solve the problem.
26th January 2012 | Comments: 3
Lara Sonola asks if clinicians used data to improve clinical practice and drive efficiency, could a little change help the NHS in a big way?
19th January 2012 | Comments: 1
James Thompson examines the data on median hospital waiting times and targets in our latest data briefing.
16th December 2011 | Comments: 1
Francesca Frosini asks how a new measurement of patients treated in non-NHS hospitals will help to assess patient choice.
8th December 2011 | Comments: 3
John Appleby analyses the results of the British Social Attitudes survey to see why our satisfaction with the NHS is so high.
30th November 2011 | Comments: 3
John Appleby's blog about how new inflation estimates affect real spending figures for the NHS.
18th November 2011 | Comments: 1
James Thompson explores the figures behind this year's NHS redundancies in his data blog.
15th November 2011 | Comments: 4
As a new Commonwealth Fund survey reflects a positive light on the NHS, Chris Ham asks why we are still moving forward so quickly with health reforms?
26th October 2011 | Comments: 3
In her blog, Veena Raleigh is doubtful that the new hospital mortality rate indictor, SHMI, will provide the definitive measure of a hospital's quality.
23rd September 2011 | Comments: 4
Anna Dixon asks what lessons should the coalition government learn from New Labour's NHS reforms?
19th August 2011 | Comments: 2
Early indications show that while waiting times are still historically low, they are beginning to increase under the coalition government.
19th July 2011 | Comments: 3
While David Cameron announced public services reform, Anna Dixon says the real challenge is translating them into practice in a service as diverse as the NHS.

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