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| What should happen to the Quality and Outcomes Framework? | | Corporate Author | National Primary Care Research and Development Centre - NPCRDC |
| Journal title | Spotlight, November 2007 |
| Publisher | National Primary Care Research and Development Centre - NPCRDC, Manchester, November 2007 |
| Pages | 6 pp |
| Source | Download this summary from : www.npcrdc.ac.uk/s5 |
| Keywords | General practice ; Medical care ; Quality ; Standards ; Econometrics. |
| Annotation | As part of a new NHS contract, introduced in 2004, GP practices are rewarded for achieving clinical and management quality targets and for improving services for people within a Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF). As the QoF is at the end of its fourth year, the NPCRDC reviews some of the evidence on the impact of its usefulness and makes recommendations for how QoF should develop in the future. QoF has improved the care provided in general practice. NPCRDC measured quality of care in a representative sample of English practices from 1998 to 2005. Of the three conditions studied, quality of care for asthma and diabetes showed more rapid improvement after the QoF. For coronary heart disease, where care was already showing the fastest change, improvement continued at the same rate. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071211206 P |
| Classmark | L5: LK: 59: 6QA: WE * |
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