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The government is to collect data on the performance of doctors in 10 new areas of medicine and will ask patients whether or not they think treatment actually improved their health, as part of a drive for transparency in the NHS.
Individual surgeons' death rates were published by the government for the first time earlier this year in a ground-breaking exercise that some doctors resisted, fearing patients would lose confidence in them.
But Thursday's announcement ? to be made as part of the UK's commitments at the Open Government Partnership in London, where the prime minister will speak ? makes it clear that there will be no turning back.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/31/drive-transparency-nhs-treatment-extended
Individual surgeons' death rates were published by the government for the first time earlier this year in a ground-breaking exercise that some doctors resisted, fearing patients would lose confidence in them.
But Thursday's announcement ? to be made as part of the UK's commitments at the Open Government Partnership in London, where the prime minister will speak ? makes it clear that there will be no turning back.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/31/drive-transparency-nhs-treatment-extended