Doctors | Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)

What about my QOF payments? 72 points lost for 2009/10 - what next?

QOF payments have enhanced the incomes of GPs considerably since 2004. But regular variations of the indicators by the Department of Health can become a source of friction within a partnership as points are shaved off. Achieving the 1,000 maximum QOF point requires nimbleness on the part of GPs in being able to adjust the services they offer. Suspicions that there is a further agenda on the part of the government besides the production of evidenced based targets, has led to doctors being apprehensive that the drivers for such changes may not always be entirely medical.

Outgoing doctors can be vulnerable where QOF payments are due after they have left a practice. Likewise, for those who continue in that practice, differences of opinion as to how to maximise QOF points and who should contribute what, can result in frictions.

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