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NHS 'must concentrate on quality of results'

26 January 2011

The Health Secretary has highlighted the importance of focusing on quality of results in the NHS in order to ensure it meets the future needs of patients.

Andrew Lansley explained the health service should embrace "value-based competition" in order to enhance patient care rather than focusing on cost alone.

He was delivering the keynote speech at the Maximising Quality, Minimising Cost conference in London on January 24th and explained the coalition's plans are intended to deliver excellence in the NHS by ensuring individuals are able to choose their service providers, giving poorer performing agencies an incentive to enhance their operations.

Mr Lansley stated: "The evidence is that where there is effective competition, all producers are driven to raise their game, so that even those providers that are less successful improve."

The conference focused on ways of adding value in the UK in terms of improving outcomes per pound spent and was organised by future economic watchdog Monitor and UCL Partners for senior clinicians.