MEASUREMENT AND PUBLICATION OF HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES

That this House welcomes recent reports demonstrating that improvements in patient care and efficiency within the NHS can be achieved through the detailed collection and publication of healthcare outcomes; acknowledges the recent Dr Foster survey of the NHS and its commendation of transparency as an important aspect of monitoring and evaluation; notes that the Royal College of Surgeons and experts across Europe have directly attributed the excellent performance of NHS cardiac surgeons in a recent Europe-wide audit to the collection and publication of detailed data on surgery death rates and other outcomes; congratulates NHS heart surgeons and their teams for these very good results; further notes that cardiac surgery is ahead of many other specialties in terms of the recording and dissemination of detailed data; and calls on the Government to encourage diligent and transparent data collection across all NHS disciplines.