BEACON helps hospitals benchmark against international peers, learn from the best and measure the impact of improvement. Discover what’s possible.
Introducing BEACON
What is BEACON?
BEACON is a member-led alliance that helps health providers benchmark against international peers, learn from the best, and collaborate to deliver and evaluate productivity and clinical improvements.
Healthcare organisations around the world face similar challenges: improving quality and safety, increasing productivity, managing workforce pressures and delivering sustainable financial performance. Yet most hospitals have limited opportunities to compare themselves beyond national boundaries or learn systematically from peers facing similar issues.
BEACON was created to change that.
Bringing together leading healthcare organisations from different countries, BEACON enables members to compare performance, identify improvement opportunities and learn from organisations achieving exceptional results.
The focus is on the challenges every health system faces: improving quality, increasing productivity and delivering sustainable financial performance.
Benchmarking against international peers has enabled us to identify new improvement strategies and drive for ever higher standards in the quality and efficiency of the services we provide.
Tom Jackiewicz
President | UChicago Medicine
See how you compare globally
BEACON supports organisations to work together to deliver improvements and measure the return on investment in service redesign, digital transformation and technology adoption.
Structured improvement programs combine benchmarking, peer learning and robust impact measurement, helping members understand not only whether change has worked, but what value it has delivered. By measuring outcomes, productivity gains and return on investment, BEACON helps organisations make more confident decisions about service redesign, technology adoption and future investment.
The result is a growing international knowledge base of proven approaches, practical experience and measurable outcomes that supports better decision-making and accelerates improvement across healthcare systems.
Benchmarking is only the starting point. BEACON exists to help members translate insight into measurable improvement.
Turning shared data and insights into sustainable change
International benchmarking reveals variation that is often invisible within national health systems. BEACON helps members understand how their performance compares globally, where the greatest opportunities for improvement lie, and what high-performing organisations do differently.
Members gain access to advanced benchmarking tools that transform routinely collected data into meaningful insight. Beyond comparison, BEACON helps organisations understand how improvement can be achieved in practice. Through trusted learning communities, healthcare leaders share strategies, challenges and results in a confidential environment that supports collaboration and innovation.
