Table 1.

NCAs Sampled

NCA	Date initiated	Clinical speciality	Examples of NCA performance measures
PICANet	2002	Paediatric Intensive Care	• Standardised Mortality Ratio (SMR): ratio between the observed number of deaths and the number of deaths that would be expected, given the severity of patients’ illness at admission • Unplanned extubations - accidental removal of breathing tubes • Emergency readmissions within 48 h of discharge
MINAP	1998	Cardiology – Myocardial Infarctions (heart attacks)	• Call-to-Balloon time: time between ambulance call and Primary PCI treatment: target 90 min • Door-to-Angiography time: time between arrival at hospital to diagnostic procedure: target 72 h • Discharge on gold standard drugs: Proportion of patients who received all secondary prevention medication for which they were eligible
BAUS	2012–2016a	Urology - diseases of the urinary-tract system and the male reproductive organs	Cystectomy (bladder removal surgery) outcomes data, including: • 30 day mortality rate • 90 day mortality rate • length of hospital stay
NACR	2005	Cardiology - Cardiac Rehabilitation	• Cardiac Rehabilitation offered to all priority groups • Percent of patients with recorded assessment before starting formal Cardiac Rehabilitation: >England 80%; Northern Ireland 88%; Wales 68% • Percent of patients with recorded assessment at the end of Cardiac Rehabilitation: > England 57%, Northern Ireland 61%, Wales 43%

^aRefers to first publication on BAUS website, data collection may have begun earlier