Select Committee on Health Written Evidence


Evidence submitted by Professor Sir Ara Darzi (ISTC 62)

DATA COLLECTION FOR ISTCs

  There should be a standardised method of capturing data for all patients, regardless of their provider. Quality of life assessment should go beyond a standardised questionnaire—it needs to be multi-faceted, procedure- or disease-specific, and should be centrally collected. Given the narrow range of procedures performed in ISTCs, procedure-specific information should be captured and useful comparisons of case- mix should be possible (ideally, risk-adjusted outcomes should be assessed). This should be applied to both the NHS and ISTCs. In particular, coding needs to be identical in the NHS and in ISTCs for the same procedures, and this is not currently the case. Quality measures (ideally risk-adjusted, prospectively collected, procedure-and disease-specific) should be centrally collected in both NHS Treatment Centres and ISTCs.

Professor Sir Ara Darzi

Imperial College, London

July 2006





 
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