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NHS Outcomes Framework

December 2011

The Outcomes Framework sets out what NHS managers have to measure to show they have progressed against targets across the year 2012-2013.

It contains five domains, which are:

  1. Preventing people from dying prematurely
  2. Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions
  3. Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury
  4. Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care
  5. Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm

For MS, most significant outcomes are in Domain 2, Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions:

  • 2.1 Ensuring people feel supported to manage their condition
  • 2.2 Employment of people with long-term conditions
  • 2.3.i unplanned hospitalisation for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions
  • 2.3.ii unplanned hospitalisation for asthma, diabetes and epilepsy in under 19s
  • 2.4 health-related quality of life for carers
  • 2.5 employment of people with mental illness
  • 2.6 enhancing quality of life for people with dementia

It's worth noting, too, the outcome in Domain 5, . Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm: 'Reducing the incidence of avoidable harm: 5.3 Incidence of newly-acquired category 2, 3, and 4 pressure ulcers'

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