Standard measures

Our 73 standard measures compare performance across England. This is the measure where North West Commissioning Region has the greatest potential for improvement. View all 73 measures...

NHS low priority measures

These are measures about low-value items which NHS England says should not routinely prescribed in primary care. This is the ranking of North West Commissioning Region for all low-value items combined. View the 24 measures...

You can browse all of our measures by topic: Antimicrobial Stewardship (10), Cardiovascular system (11), Central Nervous system (3), Cost Saving (33), Diabetes (5), Efficacy (18), Erectile Dysfunction (1), Eye (1), Gastrointestinal system (1), Generic prescribing (2), Greener NHS (3), Infections (11), NHS England - items which should not routinely be prescribed in primary care (24), Mental Health (5), NICE (24), Nutrition (4), Opioids (5), National medicines optimisation opportunities (10), Pain (13), Mentioned in Papers (2), Reproductive system (1), Respiratory (4), Retired measures (0), Safety (25)

This Regional Team page is a new feature. We have more data for individual Sub-ICB Locations and practices, and for the whole of England (such as our price-per-unit tool, ghost-branded generics, more email alerts, etc).

Price concessions cost

We estimate that in November 2024 price concessions for out-of-stock medicines will cost North West Commissioning Region an additional
£1,721,093

See the full breakdown of this estimate, view costs for other months, and sign up for alerts on the price concessions dashboard.

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