The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has published on its website the first of a series of performance measures intended to improve the availability of information to patients considering private healthcare services and start to bring standards of data quality and transparency in line with the NHS.
For the first time, patients will be able to find independent and credible information on hospitals when considering their private care options. The three performance measures published today cover 149 common procedures at over 200 hospitals and show the number of patient admissions, average lengths of stay for each procedure, and the same patient satisfaction measure for hospitals as used by the NHS (the "Friends and Family Test"). These new measures will be added to existing information including up-to-date inspection ratings from national regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC...
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