PHE, NHS Right Care and NHS England launch third Atlas of Variation

Public Health England (PHE) NHS England and NHS Right Care have launched the third and biggest NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare to help commissioners, service providers and health professionals deliver the best healthcare.

Some variation in healthcare is expected, often linked to levels of illness or patient-preference, but some is ‘unwarranted’ and cannot be explained by the same causes. Unwarranted variation could be due to limited professional knowledge or disparate organisational performance, for example.

The NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare 2015 identifies where opportunities to address ‘unwarranted’ variation exist – by revealing the possible over-use and under-use of different aspects of healthcare.

See more here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tackling-unwarranted-variation-in-healthcare-across-the-nhs