Maximising your membership: Online project toolkits

Benchmarking your healthcare services is at the heart of what we deliver. The Network project outputs are well-recognised and highly valuable to a range of audiences within your organisation. We’re taking a few moments to give you a little taster of the value you can get from the online toolkits.

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What's new in the Integrated Care System (ICS) Benchmarker

We are delighted to release new functionality to the ICS Benchmarker to enhance your user experience. Take a look at our recent news piece to see what’s now live, and what’s to come. You can also join us for a demonstration of the ICS Benchmarker tool throughout March. Find out more here.

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2019 Learning Disabilities project – Results published

The NHSBN Learning Disability (LD) project provides a broad assessment of the state of NHS learning disability services. The project plays a key role in understanding how services are commissioned, funded, and provided. 2019 results published and accessible via the members’ area now.

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2019 Community Services project – Results published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Community Services benchmarking findings. The Community Services benchmarking project has been a core part of the Network work programme for many years and provides the most comprehensive dataset available in the NHS on Community Services.

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2019 Emergency Care project – Results published

In the latest iteration, 301 submissions were received from 150 emergency care providers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The data from providers in England is also used to inform the national Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) project and the benchmarking project also supports equivalent Welsh and Northern Irish programmes.

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2019 #NHSBNUrgent Care project – Results published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Urgent Care benchmarking findings. The project provides an opportunity for participants to review the appropriateness of their local arrangements to deliver urgent care in an environment of increasing demand.

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2019 Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation project – Results published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation benchmarking findings. The project provides key intelligence for all NHS organisations that provide acute hospital services to draw robust conclusions about the national picture in NHS Pharmacy provision.

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2019 Community Hospitals project – Results published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Community Hospitals benchmarking findings. This is the eighth iteration of the project, providing insight into the integral support that Community Hospital services provide to the healthcare system.

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2019 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services project – Results published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services benchmarking findings, providing insight into the direction of travel for UK CAMHS over the seven years that the Network project has run.

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2019 Mental Health (Inpatient/CMHT) project – Results published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Inpatient and Community Mental Health benchmarking findings, providing a state of the nation view of NHS specialist mental health services.

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2019 Acute Therapies project – Results published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Acute Therapies findings. The project covers; Physiotherapy (Pt), Dietetics (Dt), Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) and Occupational Therapy (OT) services for adults.

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NHS England and NHS Improvement – Learning Disability Improvement Standards registration has opened

The Learning Disability Improvement Standards are a central part of the recently published NHS Long Term Plan with providers expected to deliver services in line with the principles outlined in the Improvement Standards.

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Emergency Department Workforce Benchmarking report released

A joint paper produced by the NHS Benchmarking Network and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) published this week provides detailed analysis of the Emergency Care workforce in England and Wales using intelligence from the NHS Benchmarking Network’s annual Emergency Care Benchmarking project.

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