Doctors commit to data transparency

By Leslie Berry

Consultants’ leaders have been praised for championing the drive for greater transparency in private healthcare.

Their efforts helped the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) last month to hit its initial target of publishing 1,000 specialists’ performance measures, as forecast in our last issue.

Another 4,000 consultants are now said to be working towards publication of their figures in the ‘UK’s largest clinical data validation exercise’.