Embedding best practice in NHS systems

This analysis shows most NHS systems do not track outcomes, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence adherence or pathways in gynaecology – despite more than 750,000 women waiting for care. The report warns that widespread failures to collect data and monitor best practice in gynaecology services are leaving women facing longer delays to diagnosis and treatment. The findings come as part of the Medical Technology Group’s Commission on NHS Culture, an investigation into how organisational culture across the NHS affects the adoption and spread of innovation and technology to improve the delivery of services. The report looks at four clinical areas: diagnostics, orthopaedics, gynaecology, and continence care to assess variation in the quality of services.