§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many performance indicators were in place for NHS Trusts in(a) 2003–04 and (b) 2001–02. [148490]
§ Mr. HuttonThe independent Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) has published the set of indicators which will be used to rate national health service organisations in 2003–04.
The number of indicators are shown in the table.
Number Acute and specialist trusts 44 Ambulance trusts 24 Mental health trusts 38 Primary care trusts 42 The Department of Health published a limited set of performance indicator for 2001–02 in July 2002, as shown in table
Number Acute trusts 37 Specialist trusts 29 Ambulance trusts 10 Mental health trusts 16 Primary care trusts 121 1Primary care trusts were measured against these indicators, but were not performance rated in 2001–02>