Consolidate national clinical performance monitoring into a new CHI Office

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

The Thirlwall Inquiry has noted action taken in response to this recommendation.

The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) was replaced by the Healthcare Commission in 2004. Its responsibilities were taken over by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2009. NHS England published the NHS Oversight Framework in June 2022 (replacing the NHS system oversight framework) to ensure the alignment of priorities across the NHS and with wider system partners; identify where ICBs and/or NHS providers may benefit from, or require, support; and provide an objective basis for decisions about when and how NHS England will intervene. These decisions and judgements about support and intervention take into account a range of factors including the organisational and system context and an assessment of leadership and governance.

The Government agreed with this recommendation.

In its January 2002 response, the Department of Health said proposals for an independent Office for Information On Health Care Performance within the Commission for Health Improvement were included in the NHS and Health Care Professionals Bill, with the Office to collect, analysis and publish reports on clinical and other NHS data.

The Office for Information On Health Care Performance was created in 2003 under the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002.

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