| Acute % (n = 96) | Primary Care Trust % (n = 116) | Total % (n = 212) | |
| Helping to improve local governance—formative | |||
| “Strongly agree” | 23 | 24 | 24 |
| “Tend to agree” | 63 | 61 | 62 |
| “Tend to disagree” | 12 | 10 | 10 |
| Providing quality data to allow judgement to be made—summative | |||
| “Strongly agree” | 12 | 16 | 14 |
| “Tend to agree” | 54 | 49 | 51 |
| “Tend to disagree” | 27 | 30 | 29 |