{
  "id": 10365433,
  "title": "How safe is your hospital? Govt mulls a scorecard",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/how-safe-is-your-hospital-govt-mulls-a-scorecard",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-27T19:18:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Economic Times",
    "slug": "the-economic-times",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/govt-private-hospitals-likely-to-be-graded-on-quality-safety/articleshow/134525740.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Indian government is developing a national quality framework for public and private hospitals, aiming to enhance patient safety, clinical outcomes, and healthcare quality. This initiative, aligned with international standards, will provide patients with information to make informed decisions about their healthcare. The framework, expected to be ready by year-end, will include patient safety parameters, specialty-specific outcomes, and grading hospitals based on performance. Patient safety measures may involve patient-reported outcome measures, patient-reported experience measures, readmission rates, and medication errors. Additionally, sub-indicators like post-transplant survival rates and postoperative mortality rates for oncology procedures will be incorporated. The grading system will enable hospitals to differentiate themselves and help payors build outcome-focused products. Currently, private hospitals in India comply with the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers framework, but reports are not publicly disclosed. In contrast, the UK's National Health Service reports and audits clinical outcomes and quality indicators, empowering patients to choose hospitals based on their specific needs.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}