A key objective for Public View is to provide simple, accurate and fast insights into NHS organisations performance. As I commented in an earlier blog ['Why Public View'](https://publicview.health/Blog/Post/54), "data conflicts, inconsistencies and manual entry errors diminish confidence and often more time is spent debating the quality of the information than actually delivering change to patient services".

What constitutes a reasonable number of indicators depends on the scope and purpose of the organisation. In healthcare performance dashboards can very quickly become unwieldy. Some suggest that 10 to 20 indicators per department is a good goal. But assuming most healthcare organisations have 40 major departments and accepting there will be some overlap in indicators, that would reduce the overall indicator count, the performance dashboard can easily approach 200 to 300 metrics.