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More auditing and monitoring of clinical outcomes
Speaking to the Royal College of General Practitioners, health secretary Andrew Lansley announced 11 new areas of medicine whose outcomes for patients will be audited, monitored and regularly published in future.
This brings to 40 the total number of areas of medicine involved in national clinical audits. They will measure a variety of different indicators, depending on the clinical area involved, such as mortality, patient’s own feedback, and hospitals’ success in making sure patients get the right treatment quickly.
The publication of clinical audit data is a key element of the Department of Health’s commitment to greater transparency in Government and the public sector. More ……
