We have benchmarked children’s community services for many years, evolving through various datasets. In 2025, we unified all children’s community services benchmarked into the Children’s Community Services Dataset providing a more streamlined and efficient approach to presenting participants insight into their community provision for children.
The NHS Benchmarking Network Emergency Care Programme is now in its 15th year, providing a comprehensive UK-wide overview of emergency care services, including Type 1 & 2 emergency departments and Type 3 urgent care centres. Since its inception in 2012, the programme has built a rich evidence base to support service improvement, benchmarking, and best practice sharing.
The NHS Benchmarking Network’s 2026 Intermediate Care project is the sixth iteration of the project, having been run annually since 2020. The project benchmarks data submitted by providers of intermediate care, covering:
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Urgent Community Response
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Home based intermediate care
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Bed based intermediate care
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Now in its 13th year, the NHS Benchmarking Network’s Managing Frailty in a Bed-Based Setting Programme provides a comprehensive overview of care for older people across acute and community hospital settings. Since its inception in 2014, the programme has built a rich evidence base to support service improvement, benchmarking, and best practice sharing.
The Mental Health Pharmacy Benchmarking Programme was initially developed in response to member feedback from provider organisations across the South of England. Following the strong engagement and value demonstrated through the 2024/25 pilot data collection, the project has now been formally adopted into the NHS Benchmarking Network’s national programme.
The provision of outpatient services varies greatly between providers with regard to clinic size, clinic scope, workforce composition and provision processes. The data collection aims to benchmark organisations against a range of metrics to provide an overview of their department and specialties in parallel. Providing insights at the organisation level and specialty level, looking further into clinic delivery, follow-up activity and the use of PIFU.
The Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation dataset provides national insight into the performance, capacity and strategic direction of pharmacy services across the NHS. Benchmarking workforce, finance, service delivery, digital maturity and clinical pharmacy activity to identify variation, highlight best practice and support system-wide improvement in medicines optimisation.
