Blog tagged as: Measurement and performance
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.
General practice lies at the heart of the new coalition government's plans for reform of the NHS in England.
In what promises to be the closest general election in recent memory, just how important will the parties' health policies be when voters confront the ballot box?
The government says that UK cancer survival rates are amongst the worst in Europe and proof of the need for change. What do the comparative statistics tell us?
On 8 January 2010 David Cameron came to the Fund to answer questions from the public and professionals on transparency, targets and bureaucracy in health care.
Anna Dixon comments on the recent controversy stirred up by the publication of Dr Foster's latest mortality figures.
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Does the NHS have the skills to continue the drive to improve quality despite the impending budget cuts? Mark Jennings reports from our 2009 annual conference.