With publication across an additional 26 hospitals, PHIN’s website now offers data across 149 common procedures at 286 hospitals. The existing performance measures show the CQC rating, number of patient admissions, typical lengths of stay, and what proportion of previous patients would recommend the facility to their friends and family (using the same approach that is standard across the NHS).
This announcement comes at the same time as the UK Government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issues compliance action against private healthcare providers that are not yet submitting performance data.

Publishing hospital performance and outcomes data will improve the quality of clinical care for patients, assist industry regulation, and empower patients with evidence and knowledge about their care provider. However, to date there has been insufficient evidence of genuine ambition for demonstrating quality of care in private healthcare.
Andrew Vallance-Owen, Chairman of the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), said “Lessons from the last year have shown an absolute and urgent need for greater transparency in private healthcare in the UK. PHIN wholeheartedly supports the action taken by the CMA, it’s time for private healthcare to do what other industry sectors have been doing for years which is to quantifiably measure success, identify and improve poor care, and allow good care to stand out. Ultimately this is about empowering patients with information that will help them understand and choose the best care for them or their families.”
PHIN’s work towards greater transparency in the private healthcare sector continues as it works with hospitals and private healthcare providers to prepare and validate data across additional performance measures, such as Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), and ‘never’ event rates (serious incidents that are entirely preventable / should never happen). PHIN will also be publishing performance measures on consultants in private practice in 2018. Additional information will only be published once the data sets are fully robust and credible.
Patients can use our new interactive map to check the compliance status of all hospitals. This can be found here.