NEW PATIENT SAFETY DATABASE PLANNED FOR NHS AND PRIVATE SECTOR

HSJ/Health Service Journal - NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network — a government-mandated and not-for-profit organisation which collates information about private healthcare — have launched a six-week consultation on the proposed online database, which would bring together consultants’ performance data across both sectors. Under the changes proposed in the acute data alignment programme — known as ADAPt (Acute Data Alignment Programme) — PHIN (Private Healthcare Information Network) would share its national dataset of private patient care with NHS Digital, creating a single source of healthcare data in England which will record activity, quality and risk in a consistent way...>>>