Provide patients with performance information for trusts, specialties, and consultant units

The Index has not yet recorded a verbatim government response to this recommendation.

Please see our response to Recommendation 1 (patient centred care). Performance information is available from the following sources:
• Published CQC inspection reports.
• Annual reports and quality accounts published direct by providers, and available through provider websites (see further information in Recommendation 156).
• The NHS Outcomes Framework, which contains a set of indicators developed by the Department of Health Social Care to monitor health outcomes of adults and children. The framework provides an overview of how the NHS is performing.

• Clinical outcomes publications, which provide detail on speciality treatments. This provides quality measures at individual consultant, team and unit levels, using national clinical audit and administrative data.

• Official statistics and data tools published by NHS England (previously NHS Digital).

The Government agreed with this recommendation.

In its January 2002 response, the Department of Health referred to a range of new developments said to be contributing to the collection of better information about the performance of NHS trusts, including annual publication of performance indicators for all acute trusts, the clinical governance reviews undertaken by the Commission for Healthcare Improvement and the publication of improved clinical indicators. The Department also said it had collaborated with ‘Dr Foster’ on a number of initiatives and was working with the Royal Colleges with a view to publication of consultant-specific data.