Report of the Office of Health Economics Commission on NHS outcomes, performance and productivity

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Knowing the outcomes achieved by health services is essential to being able to achieve the greatest benefit, the best patient care, from the resources used. The effectiveness, efficiency and accountability of the UK NHS all depend on knowing the outcomes it is achieving. Creating an informed population, able to engage fully in its health care and exercise meaningful choice depends on measures and analyses of outcomes information being available. The groups responsible for commissioning NHS health care for their local populations need information on outcomes to help decide where best to spend their limited funds so as to give the greatest benefit to patients. Information on achieved health outcomes can also help clinicians and managers to compare and improve performance. Measuring health outcomes is a crucial element of assessing NHS productivity; measuring activity without information on patient outcomes is an increasingly unsatisfactory substitute for our real interest: the health be ...