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Abstract

Contains information and data on performance ratings on your local NHS healthcare organisations. This information focuses on different types of services that the NHS provides. It uses information from our national reviews and other assessments of these services. Some of the pages below contain searchable information about the quality of a particular service at different NHS trusts.

Main Topics/Subject Category
Maternity (includes views of what mothers think), diabetes (managing diabetes and improving services for people with diabetes), mental health, heart surgery, services for people with learning difficulties, services for children and young people, making care safer, admissions management, diagnostic services, heart failure services, medicines management, services for children in hospitals, substance misuse, tobacco control and urgent and emergency care.
Variables

Quality of services, use of resources, safety and cleanliness, waiting to be seen, standard of care, dignity and respect, good management, keeping the public healthy, maternity.

Keywords
Maternity, diabetes, mental health, heart surgery, learning difficulties, children, young people, safety
Identifier Variables
Postcode, NHS provider
Economic/Subject Categories
Quality measure, Proxies
Area of Health System
Primary care, Secondary care
Data Available
Risk behaviours
Data collecting organization (s)
Care Quality Commission
Data Type
Administrative
National/Regional
National
Coverage (date of field work)
Depends on indicator
Unit of Analysis
Aggregate
Sample

All NHS organisations. Sample size varies by NHS service of interest. For example, maternity data contains information from over 26,325 women who had recently given birth.

Availability
Care Quality Commission
Conditions of Access
Free access
Link
http://2008ratings.cqc.org.uk/[…]/focusonnhsservices.cfm
Contact
Tel: 03000616161, enquiries@cqc.org.uk