About the QMR

What is The King’s Fund’s quarterly monitoring report?

Our quarterly monitoring report (QMR) reveals the views of NHS trust finance directors and clinical commissioning group finance leads on the productivity challenges they face, and examines some key performance data for the NHS in England.

It provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda and the more significant challenge of making radical improvements in productivity.

What is different about the digital QMR?

Our first nine issues were produced as longer PDF documents and can be found on The King’s Fund website at kingsfund.org.uk/qmrproject. The new QMR features digital versions of the survey results and interactive performance data charts showing the key findings for this quarter.

Where does the data come from?

The quarterly monitoring report combines publicly available data on selected NHS performance measures with views from NHS trust finance directors and clinical commissioning group finance leads. These views are collated through a survey run by The King’s Fund data team.

Making the most of the digital QMR

  • Filtering the survey by respondents

    Filter the survey results by respondent group (financial directors of NHS trusts, financial directors of clinical commissioning groups, and financial directors in social care in applicable quarters) by clicking them on or off at the top of the survey page.

  • Comments from survey respondents

    Read selected comments from the survey respondents by clicking on the speech bubble

  • Survey charts

    The area of the bubble in the survey charts represents the value shown. The sizes of the bubbles are comparable between the charts.

  • Sharing and saving charts

    Share charts on social media sites by clicking on the
    You can also download the charts as images by clicking on the save logo

  • Changing the date range of the NHS performance data charts

    See the data in a different date range by moving the sliders on the x-axis.

  • Printing the QMR

    Print the report by clicking on the print icon