IMO criticises surgeon data plan as medicine 'does not lend itself to direct league tables' 

In Britain, the performance data for thousands of surgeons is released by the NHS via an official website where people can check details such as mortality and success rates for individual consultants. Picture: iStock

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI)’s plan to reveal surgeon-specific outcome data to show how good they are has been described as “simplistic” by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

The IMO says that, if it goes ahead, it could end up leading to “perverse incentives” for surgeons to perform better.