NHS (Best Practice)

HC Deb 10 November 1998 vol 319 cc171-2W

17. Mr. Sutcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action he is taking to identify and spread best practice in the NHS. [57366]

Mr. Milburn

We are taking positive action to disseminate best practice throughout the National Health Service, including establishing the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and a database of good practice on the National Health Service web. We are making available £10 million a year to identify and promote 100 beacon local health services. And we are abolishing the internal market which created such obstacles to sharing best practice in the NHS.