Consultant outcome publication: Surgeons’ opinions of a new mandatory health policy

Consultant Outcome Publication (COP) regarding outcomes of operations done by individual surgeons was introduced to UK Urology in 2012 with the first publication of the Nephrectomy Outcomes Database. COP was championed as a policy to increase transparency of surgical outcomes for patients and also the quality of surgery. To date, there has been limited research assessing surgeon opinion on introduction of the mandatory health policy. We evaluated opinions of UK consultant urologists regarding COP and identified potential areas of improvement.