Patient employment targets for NHS

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The new NHS focus on patient outcomes will specifically target getting those suffering long term conditions or mental illness back into work.

These two goals form part of a major set of targets introduced by the Department of Health (DoH) to focus on patient results. It also released two tools to navigate the service after reforms are completed, which it said would improve choice and give patients greater information about GPs. However Labour has dismissed the move as introducing more unwanted bureaucracy and targets that the government had previously promised to scrap. The NHS Outcomes Framework consists of five general domains that the NHS must accept responsibility for and within this are 60 guidelines to measure its ...

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