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It's good to read that clinical quality might be given more weighting, than it currently is, for the FT authorisation process. If I understand correctly, the authorisation process is prinicipally weighted in favour of financial metrics and am perplexed as to how a performance scorecard for a hospital can be so unbalanced. The post-authorisation compliance framework does indeed look at clinical quality governance but these are, by and large, process measures such as waiting times. There seem to be no outcome measures listed. Let's hope the NHS Outcomes Framework and NICE Quality Standards will change this.