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Exploring how to measure patients' experience of care in hospital to improve services

27 Jul 2009
Jocelyn Cornwell, Joanna Goodrich
With the new requirement that patients' experience of care be measured as part of the drive to improve quality across the NHS, acute trusts face the challenge of choosing from a potentially dizzying array of options for carrying this out.

Quality in a cold climate: is the NHS on course?

16 Dec 2008
Anna Dixon
Anna Dixon questions whether the Outcomes Framework offers a coherent guide to help steer the health service through the more difficult financial times ahead.

Conservative health policy: deja vu?

24 Jun 2008
John Appleby
David Cameron wants to abolish NHS targets. But there's a place for them in the complex alchemy of healthcare provision, writes John Appleby.

Data briefing: Waiting times are just so...1950s

10 Apr 2008
John Appleby, Ruth Thorlby
John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby consider the issues surrounding waiting times in the NHS, from the 1950s up to the present day.

Patient choice in general practice: the implications of patient satisfaction surveys

2 Apr 2008
Anna Dixon, Julian Le Grand, Ruth Robertson
Ruth Robertson, Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand consider the factors that explain patient satisfaction with general practice physicians and how this may drive patients' choice of practice.

Identifying the impact of government targets on waiting times in the NHS

24 Mar 2008
John Appleby, Sofia Dimakou, David Parkin, Nancy Devlin
An analysis of waiting times targets using survival analysis by John Appleby and colleagues at City University.

Life expectancy targets 'will not be met'

17 Mar 2008
John Appleby
The government will fail in its attempts to cut infant mortality and life expectancy gaps by 10 per cent by 2010, according to Professor John Appleby, chief economist at The King's Fund.

Health service queues have been cut

12 Mar 2007
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson reviews the government's efforts to cut NHS waiting times.

Let's not get stuck in the queue

25 Apr 2006
John Appleby
There is more to improving the NHS than cutting patient waiting times, argues John Appleby.

Can the English NHS meet the 18-week waiting list target?

12 Jan 2006
John Appleby, Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis and John Appleby question whether the 18-week NHS waiting list target is in the interest of patients and the system in the long run.

Using statistics to detect poor practice

2 Jun 2005
John Appleby
John Appleby explores the extent to which poor performance by individual clinicians could be reflected in data available from routine NHS statistics.

Mapping choice in the NHS: cross sectional study of routinely collected data

5 Feb 2005
Mike Damiani, Carol Propper, Jennifer Dixon
Mike Damiani and colleagues test out existing levels of patient choice in England to find out more about how the government's objective to increase elective care will work in practice.

Get the measure of delivery

3 Feb 2005
John Appleby
How clear is the link between low winter temperatures and high death rates? John Appleby argues that the NHS needs to measure health outcomes as well as health care outputs.

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