Quality and performance

'Political' NHS targets may damage care quality, warns national report

By 2017-08-04T00:01:00

Surgery

A senior clinician leading a national drive against unwarranted variation in the NHS says cancer targets and surgeon mortality rates are “politically derived measures” that may reduce care quality.

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