Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 12 Issue 5

Benchmarking in UK health: a gap between policy and practice?

Deryl Northcott, Sue Llewellyn

This paper aims to bring greater clarity to the debate on the merits (or demerits) of relative performance evaluation through a broad assessment of current UK National Health…

Benchmarking health systems: trends, conceptual issues and future perspectives

Suzanne Wait, Ellen Nolte

The pupose of this paper is to present an overview of the main conceptual and methodological issues that underlie our current understanding of benchmarking initiatives in the…

Benchmarking in laboratory medicine: are we measuring the right outcomes?

Christopher P. Price

To review the application of the principles of benchmarking to the field of laboratory medicine.

Essence of Care benchmarking: putting it into practice

Liz Matykiewicz, Dave Ashton

The purpose of this paper is to introduce Essence of Care, a benchmarking tool for health care practitioners and an integral part of the UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical…

Performance assessment and benchmarking in the public sector: An example from New Zealand

K.L.H. Wynn‐Williams

Public sector organisations have to respond to calls for accountability from both funders and recipients of the services, as well as report on operations within constrained…

Benchmarking in health (Part I)

Graham Francis, Stewart Lawrence