Department of Health 16 July 2015
- An analysis of how England compares to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States in publishing information on quality of care, patient experience and outcomes.
- The selected transparency metrics were:
- Is a rating for overall quality and safety of care published for each major hospital?
- Is a rating for overall quality of care published for each GP surgery?
- Is rating for overall quality published for each residential care home?
- Is rating for overall quality published for each home care provider?
- Are individual consultant outcomes published? (i.e. patient mortality rates)
- Are individual GP outcomes published? (i.e. at doctor-level)
- Are access times for treatment published for each major hospital?
- Are patient experience measures or metrics published for each major hospital?
- Are patient experience measures or metrics published for each GP surgery?
- Do patients have online access to their medical records?
- Is there a single patient record across the whole system?
- Where metrics for England exist links to the relevant website are included in footnotes.
