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Operations management variations in NHS highlighted

13 December 2011
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Operations management variations in NHS highlightedContinuous improvement is one of the aims of a new report from the Department of Health, which published the NHS Atlas of Variation earlier this week.

The report looks at how much is spent by each Primary Care Trust (PCT) on clinical services and what outcomes for patients are generated due to this.

It is hoped that commissioners in various PCTs can use the information to improve operations management and identify examples of when and why outcomes have not been adequately reflected by financial expenditure.

Health minister Lord Howe said the Atlas is one of many steps towards making the NHS "more patient-centred".

"[It] will help commissioners to identify unjustified variations and drive up standards so patients are receiving consistently high quality care throughout the NHS," he added.

Last Friday (December 9th), the department announced that its alert for the Cold Weather Plan was reverting from Level 2 - where temperatures are low enough to give rise to health risks of a significant nature - to Level 1.ADNFCR-3058-ID-801237832-ADNFCR
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