§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer 28 March,Official Report, column 563, when she intends to publish clinical outcome indicators for NHS trusts in England similar to those published by the Secretary of State for Scotland in December 1994. [17961]
§ Mr. SackvilleThe clinical outcome indicators for national health service trusts which were published in Scotland were based on linked patient records. Such linkage is not yet available in England and there are therefore no plans at present to publish such indicators. The programme of developing new outcome indicators is longer term and until the work progresses it will not be possible to give publication dates.