"This may be unacceptable to governments, which use economic growth as their primary performance indicator," Cooper notes, rather dryly, in "Longer Lasting Products".
Key stage 2 is the Sats measure for pupils at the end of their primary education, and the data is used as one of the main performance indicators for primary schools.
However substantial variation in disenrollment rates among practices with similar levels of patient satisfaction limits the utility of voluntary disenrollment as a performance indicator for primary care in England.
However substantial variation in disenrollment rates remains among practices with similar levels of patient satisfaction, limiting the utility of voluntary disenrollment as a performance indicator for primary care in England.
Although the ONS has recognised quality as an important factor and tried to incorporate it when measuring NHS output by putting a value on any increase in short-term survival rates, shorter waiting times and primary care performance indicators such as improvements in blood pressure, it itself admits that measuring quality in the NHS is very difficult.
This study examined the validity of data on primary care performance indicators obtained by various methods, as well as the acceptability, feasibility and potential biases of using a practice-based recruitment approach for the collection of linked data from a range of different methods.
Aligning policy along a single performance indicator can be damaging.
This interval could function as a performance indicator.
But fill rate is also an important key performance indicator.
Seven Family Health Teams (FHTs), a primary care interdisciplinary practice model introduced in Ontario, Canada, in 2005, were recruited for an earlier study a year before this one, to validate a set of performance indicators and data collection strategy for primary care [ 7].
