Smethwick Medical Centre

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How are our Practices Performing

 

QOF, What is it?

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 care

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


Organisational

The domain consists of 43 indicators across five organisational areas – records and information; information for patients; education and training; practice management and medicines management.
patient experience: the domain consists of four indicators that relate to length of consultations and to patient surveys


Additional Services

The domain consists of eight indicators across four service areas which include cervical screening, child health surveillance, maternity services, contraceptive services


Holistic Care

The domain is a measure of the breadth of care across the clinical domain
The 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 prevalence of chronic conditions in the practice's local area.

 

Link to latest QOF scores (DoH website)

 

For the latest QOF scores for Smethwick Medical Centre and Hollybush Medical Centre, click here


For the latest QOF score for the Rood End Medical Centre, click here