§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will introduce a publicly accessible grading system for hospitals which will indicate the effectiveness of hospitals in delivering quality care to their patients. [32405]
§ Mr. MilburnWe are consulting on a new national framework for assessing performance in the National Health Service, and on an associated set of high-level performance indicators which includes a number of proposed clinical indicators. This new framework will form the basis for published information on NHS performance.
Some of the proposed indicators are available only at health authority level but others, including the clinical indicators, are expected to be available by NHS trust.