Bid to give doctors confidence in performance data accuracy
New pilot studies aim to help align NHS and private care data and give consultants more confidence in their accuracy. Specialists’ biggest area of concern about publication of comprehensive quality information so far has been the reliability of procedures attributed to them, particularly within the NHS activity data. A spokesman for the […]...
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