Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to include measures drawn from the NHS innovation scorecard in the proposed clinical commissioning group scorecard.

The King’s Fund published their report on a clinical commissioning group (CCG) scorecard, Measuring the Performance of Local Health Systems (http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/measuring-performance-local-health-systems), on 12 October. The King’s Fund recommends that the scorecard should comprise a small number of headline indicators targeted at the public; a broader set of indicators on performance in delivering national priorities; and a wide set of indicators for local health systems to use for improvement.

The Innovation Scorecard focuses on appropriate access to innovations (specifically medicines and devices) through the National Health Service. It includes medicines which have received a positive appraisal by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence since 2011. It aims to give Health and Care commissioners and professionals access to data at the national and local level that they can use to identify and act on unwarranted variation in patient access to these treatments.

The Department will publish further details of how it will work with NHS England to design and implement the CCG scorecard in due course.