Blog tagged as: Measurement and performance
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.
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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.
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?
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?
Anna Dixon discusses whether asking patients what care they wanted could be a much simpler solution towards making savings.
Will the Department of Health’s long-awaited Information Strategy transform health and social care information as we know it today?
What did the participants who ventured to Kaiser in our recent study tour learn from the experience?
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?
The variability in the quality of neurological services is clear. Catherine Foot asks if national strategies solve the problem.
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?
James Thompson examines the data on median hospital waiting times and targets in our latest data briefing.
Francesca Frosini asks how a new measurement of patients treated in non-NHS hospitals will help to assess patient choice.
John Appleby analyses the results of the British Social Attitudes survey to see why our satisfaction with the NHS is so high.
John Appleby's blog about how new inflation estimates affect real spending figures for the NHS.
James Thompson explores the figures behind this year's NHS redundancies in his data blog.
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?
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.
Anna Dixon asks what lessons should the coalition government learn from New Labour's NHS reforms?
Early indications show that while waiting times are still historically low, they are beginning to increase under the coalition government.
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.