Membership Governance

The NHS Benchmarking Network’s governance structure is in place to ensure the effective and efficient operation of the Network. Governance of the Network is made up of:

  • Our vision is to enable members to improve patient outcomes, raise health standards, and deliver sustainable quality health and care services through data excellence, benchmarking, and the sharing of innovation.

    Our values are:

    • Excellence - always striving to be the best we can be, in everything we do.

    • Respect - value everyone, acknowledge members’ unique experiences, work together to deliver improvement.

    • Integrity - be transparent, be realistic, be honest.

    Our objectives are:

    1. Put our members, stakeholders and participants at the heart of who we are, building and maintaining the Network’s reputation for excellence.​

    2. Work together, enabling curiosity by ensuring strong connections with and between stakeholders, creating benchmarking communities through education and positive relationships.​

    3. Actively seek to build a sustainable Network through value for money, relevant and meaningful insight and support.​

    4. Provide additional opportunities for members and stakeholders to gain bespoke support and insight into relevant priority areas, building on the core benchmarking programmes.​

    5. Make data validity and reliability the core of our work programmes to support finding the answer to the ‘so what’ question.​

    6. Maximise project participation and engagement, ensuring that data collections are appropriate and proportionate.​

    7. Develop new solutions by investing in technology to the benefit of all stakeholders.

  • The Constitution sets out the nature of the Network and defines the structure, rules and procedures for its operation and governance.

    Please click here to download a copy of the NHS Benchmarking Network Constitution.

  • The Terms of Membership explain how organisation’s membership with the NHS Benchmarking Network is managed. It details the legal relationship between the parties involved in delivering the Network across health and social care and provides certainty about members’ rights and obligations.

    Please click here to download a copy of the NHS Benchmarking Network Terms of Membership.