Writing in this week’s HSJ, future adviser to the health secretary David Kerr argues that opening up clinical data to the public will drive better outcomes.

The professor of cancer medicine at Oxford University said that allowing patients to choose the GP practice or hospital that offers the best outcomes for a particular disease would increase competition.

He said: “Peer pressure and professional pride will mandate that clinicians respond to improve performance which has been shown, publicly, to be sub-optimal.”

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