No European Union benchmarks are used when performance assessing the national health service. As set out in “High Quality Care For All: NHS Next Stage Review Final Report” (copies of which are already available in the Library), we believe it is important for patients, staff and the public to be able to understand how we perform compared to other healthcare systems. To do this we plan to work with other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and with the best academic institutions in the world to agree some internationally comparable measures.