How will Quality Accounts reflect innovation, education, and research?
Quality Accounts offer a transparent way to ensure that trusts report to their local populations on research activities, which are an important enabler of quality of care. Providers who conduct research will include in their Quality Accounts data about the number of patients recruited in the previous year to clinical research (i.e. research which has received Research Ethics Committee approval). Local NHS organisations will be supported in developing indicators for inclusion in their Quality Accounts that have the potential to consider quality of research and quality of care in the broader terms where they feel appropriate. There will also be data arising from local schemes to recognise and reward quality and innovation.
