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Speaking to the Royal College of General Practitioners on Saturday morning, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced 11 new areas of medicine whose outcomes for patients will be audited, monitored and regularly published in future.

This brings to 40 the total number of areas of medicine involved in National Clinical Audits. 皇冠体育appy will measure a variety of different indicators, depending on the clinical area involved, such as mortality, patient鈥檚 own feedback, and hospitals鈥� success in making sure patients get the right treatment quickly.

皇冠体育app publication of clinical audit data is a key element of the Department of Health鈥檚 commitment to greater transparency in Government and the public sector.

Addressing the audience of GPs, Andrew Lansley said:

鈥淭oday, as part of our commitment to an open NHS, I can announce an extension of our plans to audit outcomes across a range of different clinical areas. Better data means better quality in the NHS - for patients, for their specialist clinicians, and crucially for you - both as their GPs and as the future commissioners of those services.

鈥淚t means patients can make better informed choices. It means specialists can compare themselves with the best and learn the lessons. And it means you can commission services from specialists who have learned those lessons.

鈥淔or example, COPD will be one of the first new audits to be commissioned - before the end of this year. This is a huge piece of work which will serve a large number of patients whose care straddles the primary, secondary and tertiary divide.

鈥淚f we can get it right for those patients, we can, with your help, also get it right for millions of others.

鈥淭his information, along with NHS provider staff satisfaction data 鈥� taken from the NHS Staff Survey 鈥� will help providers to drive up quality and help you and your patients to make the best decisions about their care.

鈥淎nd it will help General Practice to improve. So I鈥檇 like to thank the RCGP for leading the on-going work to publish comparative data on the provision of services by GP Practices, due from December.鈥�

皇冠体育app first two of the new audits - COPD and emergency laparotomy - will be commissioned before the end of 2011. Subsequent audits will be commissioned two at a time in the following months until all forty are underway. Results will be published from 2013 and on a regular basis thereafter.

皇冠体育app 11 new clinical areas selected for clinical audit are:

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Emergency Laparotomy
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Prostate Cancer
Healthcare for individuals with learning difficulties
Specialist rehabilitation for patients with complex needs
Chronic kidney disease in primary care
Ophthalmology
Breast cancer
Rheumatoid and early inflammatory arthritis
Healthcare for individuals with sexually transmitted diseases and HIV

Notes to Editors

1. Professionals working in all areas of health care were invited to propose topics that in their opinion would benefit from the development of a national clinical audit to help drive quality improvement in that area. A total of 39 proposals were received from a range of individuals and professional groups and the proposals were evaluated by the National Clinical Audit Advisory Group (NCAAG) against explicit criteria. 皇冠体育app proposals were of unprecedented quality, which was felt to be representative of the increasing interest and engagement with clinical audit nationally. Eleven of the 39 proposals were selected by the Department of Health for future procurement by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP).

2. For further information please contact the Department of Health Media Centre on 0207 210 5221.