The NHS Executive and Department of Health have proposed a wide range of performance indicators many of which are applicable to future primary care groups
Some of these indicators reflect access and efficiency, but few of the effectiveness indicators are based on primary care interventions for which there is evidence that increased uptake results in improved health outcomes
We present a method to identify important primary care interventions of proved efficacy and suggest performance indicators that could monitor their use
Our evidence based approach may be a complementary way of identifying areas for performance indicators to those proposed by the NHS Executive and Department of Health
Our suggested indicators are more likely to help turn evidence into everyday practice and to have an impact on the population's healt
