A new public website has been launched – www.phin.org.uk – which enables patients and GPs to directly compare around 200 independent hospitals on a range of quality of care indicators.
The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), a collaboration involving almost all independent hospital operators, will publish standardised and directly comparable information drawn from records of both private and NHS treatment. The site enables patients and clinicians to search for local hospitals by procedure and to compare how they perform based on data from the treatment of more than a million patients a year.
