Park Leys Medical Practice

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary annual reward and incentive programme for all GP surgeries in England, detailing practice achievement results. It is not about performance management but resourcing and then rewarding good practice.

The QOF contains five main components, known as domains. Each domain consists of a set of measures of achievement, known as indicators, against which practices score points according to their level of achievement.

• Clinical: this domain consists of 80 indicators across 19 clinical areas (e.g. coronary heart disease, heart failure, hypertension)

• Patient Experience: this domain consists of four indicators that relate to length of consultations and to patient surveys

• Additional Services: this domain consists of eight indicators across four service areas which include cervical screening, child health surveillance, maternity services, contraceptive services

• Holistic Care: this domain is a measure of the breadth of care across the clinical domain

• Organisational: this domain consists of 43 indicators across five organisational areas – records and information; information for patients; education and training; practice management and medicines management.

QOF gives an indication of the overall achievement of a surgery through a points system. Practices aim to deliver high quality care across a range of areas for which they score points. Put simply, the higher the score, the higher the financial reward for the practice. The final payment is adjusted to take account of surgery workload and the relative health of patients in their area.

To report the latest annual QOF points, The Information Centre for health and social care (The IC) has developed an online database to allow patients and public easy access to this useful data that indicates how well their surgery is doing. The IC is working to make information more relevant and accessible to the public, regulators, health and social care professionals and policy makers, leading to improvements in knowledge and efficiency.

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