Soon you will be able to see data about your private hospital and surgeon on line through this audit network.(PHIN for short) It will initially provide information about complication rates from surgery but may go on to show patient reported outcome measures for patients having spinal surgery in the future – (in other words how well patients are doing after surgery). Surgeons in the NHS are unsure how the data will compare with their published data, but having worked in both sectors, I am confident that it will show much lower complication and infection rates for most private hospitals.
Private Health Information Network
