Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)
- Abstract
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The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary annual reward and incentive programme for all GP surgeries in England, detailing practice achievement results. The QOF gives an indication of the overall achievement of a surgery through a points system. Using this database, you can :
* find the overall achievement score for any practice
* breakdown the achievement by a series of clinical measures
* compare local surgery achievement with other surgeries and the local PCT and England averages
* discover explanations of the QOF clinical indicators
* export simple data tables of multiple practice results
* search for any GP practice in England. - Main Topics/Subject Category
- Clinical care, organisational, patient experience, additional services and holistic care.
- Variables
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Asthma, atrial fibrillation, cancer, chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, dementia, depression, diabetes mellitus (diabetes), epilepsy, heart failure, hypertension, hypothyroidism, learning disabilities, mental health, obesity, palliative care, smoking, stroke or transient ischaemic attacks (tia), education and training, medicines management, patient communication, practice management, records and information about patients, patient experience (includes: length of consultation, patient survey), additional services and holistic care.
- Keywords
- Patient care, GP practice, PCT, performance score, delivery of care, quality of care, quality, patients, indicators, asthma, diabetes, coronary heart disease, prevalence, holistic care, patient experience
- Identifier Variables
- Practice name, postcode
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Performance
- Area of Health System
- Primary care
- Disease Area
- Cancer, Mental health, Coronary heart disease, Asthma, Diabetes, Stroke, Ischemic heart disease
- Data Available
- Socio-economic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- NHS information centre
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
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Over 8,000 GP practices with over 53.5 million registered patients in England.
- Availability
- NHS information centre
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.qof.ic.NHS.uk/search.asp
- Contact
- Tel: 08453006016, enquiries@ic.nhs.uk
- Publications
- Guthrie B. Workload and reward in the Quality and Outcomes Framework of the 2004 general practice contract. Br J Gen Pract 2006; 56(532): 836–841