Patient Reported Outcome Measures
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) assess the quality of care delivered to NHS patients from the patient perspective. Currently covering four clinical procedures, PROMs calculate the health gains after surgical treatment using pre- and post-operative surveys.
The four procedures are
- hip replacements
- knee replacements
- hernia
- varicose veins
PROMs have been collected by all providers of NHS-funded care since April 2009.
PROMs measure a patient's health status or health-related quality of life at a single point in time, and are collected through short, self-completed questionnaires. This health status information is collected from patients through PROMs questionnaires before and after a procedure and provides an indication of the outcomes or quality of care delivered to NHS patients.
Who is responsible for delivering the PROMs programme?
PROMs is co-ordinated by the Department of Health.
PROMs data is collected, processed, analysed and reported by a number of organisations, including hospital trusts which perform PROMs procedures, the Health and Social Care Information Centre and contractors.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is responsible for scoring and publishing of PROMs data as well as linking it to other data sets such as Hospital Episodes Statistics.
PROMs publications
PROMs national-level headline data is published every month with additional organisation and record-level data made available each quarter (typically in February, May, August, and November each year).
Data is provisional until a final annual publication is released each year.
- 2012-12 Provisional data - released May 2013 (covering April 2012 to December 2012) NEW!
- 2011-12 Provisional data - released May 2013 NEW!
- 2010-11 Final data - released August 2012
PROMs Special Topics
Special topics are published, typically in February, May and November each year, to highlight the richness of the PROMs data available.
Recent special topics:
- Complications after surgery 2010-11 - released May 2013 NEW!
- Satisfaction with and success of surgery 2010-11 - released February 2013
- EQ-5D descriptive system 2009-10 - released May 2012
View all PROMS Special Topic publications
Changes to PROMs methodology
Occasionally we update the way PROMs are calculated and analysed.
May 2012: The methodology used to calculate the casemix adjusted scores has been updated for the 2011/12 financial year.
Read more about these changes [131kb]
August 2011: We changed the methodology used in the score comparison spreadsheet. Following a review by the PROMs programme, funnel plots are now being used instead of comparison charts.