Blog tagged as: Measurement and performance

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.
13th May 2011 | Comments: 4
NHS waiting times were once again the subject of heated exchanges in the Commons. But as our waiting times tracker shows, it all depends on how you measure it.
21st April 2011 | Comments: 3
Good primary care is critical to public health and tackling inequalities. So how has the QOF incentivisation scheme in primary care impacted on public health?
24th March 2011 | Comments: 7
How good is the quality of general practice in England? An independent panel commissioned by the Fund provided an answer to this question this morning.
28th January 2011
Andrew Lansley has invoked our relatively poor cancer outcomes as part of his justification for health reform. But just how bad are we at treating cancer?
6th January 2011
Catherine Foot asks if the new quality accounts will help the public and patients have a clearer view of the quality of care provided locally.
20th December 2010 | Comments: 5
An important issue in understanding trends in waiting times is seasonal variations. John Appleby looks at hospital waiting times in his data blog.
3rd December 2010 | Comments: 4
The health White Paper sets out a significant set of reforms for the NHS. We plan to follow the evolution and implementation of these changes and assess their impact.
4th November 2010 | Comments: 3
A report out today discusses the issues in using mortality to measure the quality of hospital care. But is this a good measure of quality of care?
1st October 2010 | Comments: 1
Reflecting on the journey back from Australia to England, Mark Jennings concludes that there are great similarities between these two health systems on opposite sides of the world.
29th September 2010 | Comments: 2
John Appleby considers the first set of data on post-operative patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) published by the Department of Health.
19th July 2010 | Comments: 3
Information is destined to have a key role in the new vision for the NHS. But will it help to give patients choices and to increase public accountability?
6th July 2010
Quality accounts are intended to achieve two things - to increase boards' focus on quality, and to provide greater public accountability for quality.
21st June 2010 | Comments: 2
The Secretary of State's revisions to the 2010/11 NHS Operating Framework have been published today and, as expected, the government is scaling back access targets.

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