Web links to information about the 2004 NHS GP contract
Originally compiled for the convenience of delegates at the Dutch College of GPs Congress, The Hague, 2005
Official portal to information
about the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)
Summary of the QOF points system
upon which a substantial proportion of practice income is now dependent.
Page on
the British Medical Association's website giving a wide range of information
about the working of the 2004 GP contract. Designed for patients to read.
An
example of the wealth of detailed figures freely available on the web - in
this case Achievement (of QOF) by Disease and by Strategic Health Authority,
with a national summary. This shows how close to 100% of available
QOF points the great majority of practices achieve - the lowest being 80%.
Even so, it is
almost irresistible to transfer some of the figures to an editable spreadsheet
and them sort them into rank order!
A vast
range of detailed analyses can be accessed from this page, and linked to
individual practices by using the GP practice lookup table to interpret the
practice code.
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