BMJ 2008;336:635 (22 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39521.528623.DB
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Health check indicators will reflect local priorities
Oona Mashta
1 London
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The list of indicators used to rate trusts in the annual health checks is set to change in 2008-9 to place more emphasis on local priorities as well as the present national ones, the Healthcare Commission in England has announced.
Nick Jones, deputy head of strategy at the commission, also said that there will be different scores for the provider and commissioning roles of primary care trusts. Speaking at a conference in London last Thursday he said that the changes reflect the government’s aim for service provision to be more responsive to the local priorities set out in its operating framework for 2008-9.
Mr Jones said, "We want to assess whether primary care trusts are delivering on national priorities set out in the operating framework.
"In the 2008-9 health checks there will also be an assessment of local priorities which trusts will be able to set with their partners, local
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