Accounting for the quality of NHS output

Accounting for the quality of NHS output This review provides the conceptual framework needed to select potentially appropriate characteristics of healthcare outputs to be included in a measure of NHS output. To this end the research team has evaluated three published sets of criteria developed by national bodies responsible for assessing healthcare system performance before seeking the opinions of UK experts on quality. From this process a criteria set was established, which was subsequently used to assess whether two separate set of quality indicators currently collected and reported for the English NHS, namely the NHS Outcomes Framework indicators and NHS Thermometer indicators, meet the identified criteria. Centre for Health Economics