Performance of the National Health Service
Public health measures are more important than medical care for improving the health of the population. But the performance of the NHS is important to individuals who need treatment. The fact that treatment is free protects people who have few resources from worrying about the need to find money at a point when they are particularly vulnerable. It is important politically. If people who can afford to pay for private treatment lose confidence in the NHS and opt out then we may all suffer.
Opinions about the NHS: GP patient surveys: your doctor, your experience, your say 2007;
Care Quality Commission patient surveys
UK Polling reports on party preference in respect of health.
Maps showing patient diagnoses, therapies and wellbeing. Geographic maps make it easy to visualise immediately the regions where most healthcare is conducted, where the population is under stress due to illness, and where the healthcare system is performing well by meeting patient needs.
- 10 Year Health Check: Labour and the NHS
- Care Quality Commission
- Civitas - what can we learn from how Healthcare is provided outside the UK?
- CMO challenges waste and inequity in Health Service provision 2006
- Does poor health justify NHS reform? John Appleby 2011
- Dr Foster
- Findings of National survey of NHS staff 2008 Health reforms will cut quality rather than boost productivity 2011
- Health Statistics
- Health Unlocked
- I want great care
- Life in the NHS - a manager's blog
- Local variations in NHS spending priorities Kings Fund 2008
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, 2010 Update
- More for less Are productivity and efficiency improving in the NHS? 2009
- More hospitals need to close, says ex-NHS boss 2011
- National Audit Office - NHS Pay Modernisation: New contracts for general practice services in England 2008
- NHS at 60 - the cost of health BBC
- NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare
- NHS Choices
- NHS Quality (The Guardian)
- Patient Opinion
- Performance Indicators 2002
- Provision of Out-of-Hours Care in England National Audit Office 2006
- The Production and Reproduction of Scandals in Chronic Sector Hospitals 1981
- Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets
- Quality Indicators
- Radical Statistics Group
- Reducing brain damage: faster access to better stroke care Public Accounts Committee 2006
- Sally Irvine lecture delivered by Ken Jarrold, the former chief executive of County Durham and Tees Valley strategic health authority, to the Institute of Health Management's annual conference Wednesday November 23, 2005
- Spending on Health Care How much is enough? Kings Fund 2006
- Star ratings: The star ratings give you an idea of how well NHS organisations are performing. There are star ratings for all Acute Trusts, Ambulance Trusts , Mental Health Trusts, and Primary Care Trusts in England. 2005
- Trusts frustrated over ‘worse’ mortality rates 2009
- Waiting Times Targets- NHS Gooroo
- The War on Waiting for Hospital Treatment: What has Labour achieved and what challenges remain? Kings Fund 2005
- Wasting Lives: A statistical analysis of NHS performance in a European context since 1981 (2008)
- Where's the money going? Kings Fund Briefing 2006
- Why we need fewer hospital beds NHS Confederation 2006