The public health outcomes framework tool allows you to look at how broader public health data impacts on local authorities.
Conditions that come under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) - which give incentives to GPs - received better attention.
He argues: "What we need is a simplified outcomes framework that aligns across healthcare, public health and social care".
It's not a perfect system, he says, and there are positive things in the health and social care bill – not least, the outcomes framework.
On receipt, Mr Lansley started personalising the speech further as only he knows how: he began inserting paragraphs about the new NHS "outcomes framework".
But no, at number one are changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework, the DH's way of giving special payments to doctors for meeting targets.
Action to be taken to develop a single outcomes framework to promote joint accountability for delivering services that are joined up.
It is not even clear that increased spending results in better medical care as an examination of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) demonstrates.
Incentivising local authorities to act by making drug-related deaths part of the public health outcomes framework is another step recommended by the expert group.
This currently runs the quality and outcomes framework, which monitors GPs by standards of clinical care, organisation and patient experience, and expects more standards work from the commissioning board.
The NHS's "tariff" system of paying hospitals for treatment incentivises them to undertake medical activity, as does the Quality Outcomes Framework system under which GPs are rewarded for, for example, treating high cholesterol or high blood pressure, they say.
