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Why join the Network?
Our members use NHSBN insight to understand performance variation, support business cases, improve clinical services, and drive operational efficiency.
Robust Benchmarking
Compare performance against peer organisations using validated national datasets.
Actionable Insights
Identify variation, opportunity and innovation to help transform your services.
Support Decision-making
Use evidence to inform strategy, service redesign and investment.
Credible, Independent Analysis
Providing trusted benchmarking insight to NHS organisations for over 30 years.
Who can join?
Our membership community is made up of a diverse range of health and social care organisations from across the UK.
Health and care organisations across the UK are eligible to become members of the Network, including, but not limited to:
NHS Trusts
Benchmark your services, identify variation, and support service improvement and operational decision-making.
Integrated Care Boards
Understand system-wide performance, support transformation, and enable place-based improvement.
Independent Healthcare Providers
Compare performance, demonstrate value, and support quality improvement through national benchmarking.
Voluntary Sector Providers
Evidence impact, support funding cases, and improve service delivery using trusted data insights.
What do members have access to?
As a member of the NHS Benchmarking Network, not only do you join a networking community, your organisation gains access to valuable tools and resources through the online members' area. These include:
Online Data Explorers
The data explorers are easy-to-use online tools for visualising data collected. They offer a range of views, including dashboards and overviews for summarised insights, as well as the ability to see the full breakdown of benchmarked data in the form of summary charts.
Designed with a clear and organised structure, our data explorers ensure outputs are easy to navigate, making it simple for both analysts and non-analysts to find, understand, and effectively use their own data.
Submitting members have the option to share their unique code with other submitting members, by consenting to sharing organisations are able to identify their peers and connect with other service contacts.
Reports
Member reports and overview reports are produced for each of our annual datasets, providing a snapshot of the findings for that year, with the full range of metrics available in the online data explorers.
Our reports are a great starting point to see how your service compares to your peers, or gain an overall understanding of trends in the sample. A tailored member report(s) is produced for each participating organisation. The report highlights your position for the metric alongside the sample picture.
We also produce overview reports for our non-provider members or those who are unable to take part that year, these offer a summary of the findings linking to national policy and service context.
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Events
Each year the Network deliver a programme of events for our members. Showcasing the findings from our work programme and bringing together key speakers from across healthcare to share learning and innovation, provide policy updates and offer insight into the healthcare landscape.
The events enable networking with peer organisations, offering participants to connect with colleagues from across the UK. The recordings and materials from our online webinars are all available on the members' area.
Shared Learning Compendiums
We also produce shared learning compendiums for our datasets, which are resources that collate the written responses to our open-ended questions. Participants are asked to briefly summarise any innovative practice on a range of topics, these responses are collated by theme and question and are available to all members via the members' area.
These resources have explored a range of topics such as staff retention and recruitment, reducing waiting lists, system linkages and much more.
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