Primary care trusts overview

The indicators that we will use in our assessment of performance against the existing national targets are available via the indicator links on the left hand side of this page. They include details of why the indicator is included (the 'rationale'), the data source, the period of time assessed by the indicator (the 'data period') and the technical specification (the 'construction').

The existing national target indicators relevant to primary care trusts are:

• Access to a GP
• Access to a primary care professional
• All cancers: one month diagnosis (decision to treat) to treatment
• All cancers: two month GP urgent referral to treatment
• All cancers: two week wait
• Category A calls meeting 19 minute target
• Category A calls meeting eight minute target
• Category B calls meeting national 19 minute target
• Commissioning a comprehensive child and adolescent mental health service
• Commissioning of crisis resolution/home treatment services
• Convenience and choice - PCT booking
• Convenience and choice - PCT facilities in place to support choice
• Delayed transfers of care
• Diabetic retinopathy screening
• Number of inpatients waiting longer than the standard
• Number of outpatients waiting longer than the standard
• Patients waiting longer than three months for revascularisation
• Practice based registers - patients called for review
• Thrombolysis - 60 minute call to needle time
• Total time in A&E: four hours or less

Hybrid Trusts

Hybrid trusts (those healthcare organisations which provide functions of more than one type, for example, primary care trusts which also provide mental health services) should refer to the indicator lists for all relevant trust types. Their assessment will be based on all of the indicators for each function they deliver.

Enquiries

Please direct any enquiries to the performance indicators mailbox: performance.indicators@healthcarecommission.org.uk