A new website will allow NHS clinical teams to have access to data showing their performance against a set of more than 200 indicators of high quality care.
The Department of Health and The NHS Information Centre have made the data available to allow NHS professionals to use it as a basis to assess local quality improvement. They form an easily accessible menu for NHS staff to carry out local analysis and comparisons between NHS organisations.
The Indicators for Quality Improvement (IQI) have been selected in conjunction with the Royal Colleges, following extensive consultation with the NHS, and are currently based on existing national indicator sets and data collections.
At present the most complete set of data centres on planned care with 16 "quality dimensions" on safety, 83 on effectiveness and 25 on experience.
Over the next three to five years, the coverage of these will be expanded to more comprehensively addressing the wide range of NHS and Social Care services NHS professionals provide including acute care, staying healthy, long-term conditions and mental health.
Some of the data for the indicators in the IQI is already available to the public on the NHS Choices website. Over the coming year, the intention is to also make the majority of the remainder available on the NHS Choices website.
The NHS Information Centre website, targeted at NHS professionals, will today make the data available for more than 75% of the indicators, with the remainder to follow shortly. The indicators can be found here.