Abstract
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Highlights
In the introduction the authors state that "Performance indicators are designed to inform judgements about how well NHS services are being provided
The current draft is primarily Körnerbased and exclusively concerned with action based quantitative data, i.e. numbers of contacts between patients and various categories of staff, numbers of ECT, etc. This certainly will allow more precise costing of the service we provide but the decision whether, for instance, frequent contacts between a CPN and a patient are of any benefit remain subjective. Since this seems to be the overall quality of the proposed performance indicators it would imply that the DHSS is proposing to measure the performance of community services and mental health services virtually exclusively on financial grounds without worrying about the quality of the service provided
This is very worrying for those of us who do not like to see political decisions about our health to be made on purely financial grounds
Summary
In the introduction the authors state that "Performance indicators are designed to inform judgements about how well NHS services are being provided. They are an important source of information at all levels of the Health Service." Later on in the introduction the authors state "We recognise that one limitation of the set of performance indi cators which we are putting forward is that it contains few indicators that examine outcomes and the quality of service.
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