Policy responses and statements
- Name of organisation:
- Department of Health
- Name of policy document:
- Liberating the NHS: Transparency in outcomes – a framework for the NHS
- Deadline for response:
- 11 October 2010
Background: The Government’s White Paper, Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS, set out how the Secretary of State for Health will hold the NHS Commissioning Board to account for delivering better health outcomes through a national NHS Outcomes Framework. The Department of Health then launched a full consultation and engagement process on how it should develop the NHS Outcomes Framework.
The purpose of this consultation was to seek the help of those working in the NHS, patients and the public in developing this NHS Outcomes Framework
The consultation document explains and asked for views on:
- the principles that should underpin the NHS Outcomes Framework;
- a proposed structure and approach that could be used to develop the framework;
- the potential outcome indicators (existing and future) that could be presented in the framework, including the proposed rationales for selection;
- how the proposed NHS Outcomes Framework can support equality across all groups and can help reduce health inequalities; and
- how the framework can support the necessary partnership working between public health and social care services needed to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients
Copies of this response are available from:
Lesley Lockhart,
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.
Tel: 0131 225 7324 ext 608
Fax: 0131 220 3939
[13 October 2010]
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