Delivering our 10-year health plan transparency commitments
The 10 Year Health Plan, Fit for the Future stated ambition is to make the NHS the most transparent healthcare system in the world. A more open approach to the sharing of aggregate data and insights will improve local accountability and, through greater transparency, improve public trust. Over time, we will also deliver new public insights to support patients on key areas of interest.
The initial phase of delivering our transparency commitments has been, and will continue to be, shaped through the following areas:
- Improving access for NHS professionals: Providing wider and more permissive access to operational and aggregate data, statistics, and metrics within and across the NHS to support delivery and improvement.
- Working openly by default: Open access to insights designed for the NHS (for example, benchmarking tools) so that analysts, researchers and interested parties beyond the NHS can also support service improvements driven through openness and accountability.
In addition, NHS England currently maintains over 200 individual series of publications. We will bring many of these together to offer a joined-up view across health.
What have we achieved so far?
Key public-data delivery (25/26)
- Created a public data gateway to share the data and insights released under the transparency agenda.
- Released the NHS Acute Provider Table dashboard of monthly provider performance across seven key operational statistics.
- Refreshed the NHS Oversight Framework (NOF) public dashboard provider segmentation and league tables.
- Provided open access to aggregate clinical, operational and productivity benchmarking through the Open Model Health System.
What is coming up next?
- Launch a new public Workforce and Activity dashboard.
- Development of new quality metrics to support the delivery of the commitments of a new transparency of quality of care from the 10-year health plan and forthcoming Quality Strategy.
- Integration of core publications; key healthcare Official and National Statistics, alongside dashboard publications, will be integrated into the new public data gateway.
- Open APIs for third parties to access our published aggregate data and develop solutions, insights, narrative and outputs to support accountability and quality improvement.
- An improved presentation of the NHS Oversight Framework will be made available by the gateway landing page.
- Expansion of the data gateway to include new areas of care, extending beyond acute and hospital performance.
How can I learn more?
For more information about the transparency agenda, please see the 10 Year Health Plan Fit for the Future here.
You can also watch the most recent public NHSE Board meeting video here, and read a summary of the paper submitted in advance of the public Board here.