As readers will know the NHS Commissioning Board supported by the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) is developing a Commissioning Outcomes Framework (COF) which is intended to measure the health outcomes and quality of care (including patient reported outcome measures and patient experience) achieved by clinical commissioning groups. The framework will underpin the performance assessment of CCGs.
NICE has now published its COF indicator programme. As the NICE website says The COF will allow the NHS Commissioning Board to identify the contribution of clinical commissioning groups to achieving the priorities for health improvement in the NHS Outcomes Framework while also being accountable to patients and local communities. It will also enable the commissioning groups to benchmark their performance and identify priorities for improvement.
There are eight indicators available and they are in the following categories: Cardiovascular; Gastrointestinal; Respiratory; Mental Health; Endocrine nutritional and metabolic; Maternity and reproductive; Cancer and tumours; and Other/cross cutting.
The link to the relevant page on the NICE website is here: http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/cof/cof.jsp