Blog tagged as: Measurement and performance
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.
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.
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?
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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.
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?
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.
An important issue in understanding trends in waiting times is seasonal variations. John Appleby looks at hospital waiting times in his data blog.
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.
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?
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.
John Appleby considers the first set of data on post-operative patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) published by the Department of Health.
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?
Quality accounts are intended to achieve two things - to increase boards' focus on quality, and to provide greater public accountability for quality.
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.