Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the timeline for publishing specialised services quality dashboards data to ensure transparency.

NHS England’s specialised commissioning uses a range of data to support quality oversight and assurance, which includes Specialised Services Quality Dashboards (SSQDs), National Clinical Audits for some services, and the triangulation of other clinical quality and safety information. The metadata for the SSQDs is already publicly available on NHS England’s website. National Clinical Audit reports, which are commissioned and managed by NHS England, are also publicly available on the Healthcare Quality Improvement

Partnership’s website, and cover some specialised services.

NHS England is actively exploring ways to publish metrics from SSQDs, ensuring that they align with the development and release of service specifications, and are updated regularly. Publication decisions on SSQDs will continue to consider information governance requirements, for example, where patient numbers are small and potentially identifiable.