Setting out his vision which will make the NHS much more of the patients’ service than ever, Health secretary Andrew Lansley has introduced as many as 62 new measures which will be checked by a number of administrators in every NHS hospital.

The new measures will have the NHS measured against several areas which may include gauging the success of a patients’ treatment, and ascertaining whether the NHS staff had looked after them well and if they had recovered quickly after their treatment.

The NHS will be measured against a number of areas including whether a patient’s treatment was successful, whether they were looked after well by NHS staff and whether they recovered quickly after treatment.

A few of the new measures that Lansley has brought on will necessitate a careful contemplation by private medical and health cash insurers to determine the chances of an amendment or enhancement in cover.

Under the move, NHS patients will be, from April next year, able to know the availability of all the local services, to be provided via ‘Any Qualified Provider’, on a new user-friendly map which will make it fairly easy for them to identify the best GP.

In addition, millions of patients suffering from long term conditions, such as heart disease, asthma, diabetes, and depression, will now be able to learn more about surgeries that have noteworthy experience in treating similar patients.