QualityWatch 23 January 2020
- Analysis of data for 23 indicators of quality of NHS care has shown that people living in the most deprived areas of England experience a worse quality of NHS care and poorer health outcomes than people living in the least deprived areas.
- The authors used Hospital Episode Statistics, patient survey data, published health statistics and the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Using this data they looked at 23 indicators measuring the quality of NHS care for the 10% of people living in the most deprived areas and the 10% of people living in the least deprived areas of England. From this they constructed an inequality score that is comparable across different performance measures and over time.
