Blog tagged as: Measurement and performance

4th November 2009 | Comments: 1
Richard Giordano discusses the leadership role that clinical and medical directors will play during the cold resource climate ahead.
28th October 2009 | Comments: 5
Measuring quality was put at the forefront of quality improvement by the NHS Next Stage Review. But we need to get better at thinking about why and how we use it.
6th October 2009 | Comments: 1
Niall Dickson comments on Stephen O'Brien's admission at the Conservative Party conference 2009 that far from being the source of evil, targets could be a good thing.
23rd September 2009
Andy Burnham recently announced that hospital payments will be linked to patient experience at service level. Will this help to improve quality?
9th February 2009 | Comments: 4
The introduction of patient-reported outcome measures has the potential to transform health care. But NHS leaders must move quickly to engage staff and patients.
16th December 2008
Last week saw the publication of the NHS Operating Framework for 2009/10, with details of PCT allocations and a new formula for calculating those allocations.
17th July 2008
The NHS Next Stage Review outlines sensible measures to transform patient care, but Niall Dickson argues that real cultural change is needed in the health service.

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