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Residential Institute Codes
Patients in residential care are allocated additional global sum weighting (1.43 factor) due to the increase in associated workload. In order to be paid appropriately for patients who reside in care... more
3 Jul 2024QOF Hints & Tips
Smoking - users of electronic cigarettes who have never smoked or given up smoking should be classified as non-smokers or ex-smokers respectively. Non-responder invite codes following objective tes... more
1 Jul 2024CAN002 - FIT test PCA codes (not indicated/declined)
Patients who have one of these codes recorded do not require a FIT test. If not indicated due to the following (without a more recent FIT result):... more
13 Jun 2024QOF 2024/25 Invite Codes
New invitation codes have been included this year for cholesterol - all patients on any QOF disease register should be offered a minimum of two invitations for care within each QOF year i.e. 1 April –... more
8 May 2024QOF - Income Protected Indicators What does this actually mean to your income?
“Income protected” is really misleading. Why? Because what has actually happened points for these indicators have been frozen, however, your income can very much still go up or down.... more
30 Apr 2024GMS Contract & QOF 2024/25
Total points available have not changed - 635 points broken down into clinical (401), public health (160) and QI (74). 179 points are non-prevalence weighted, so based on your list size, however, 446... more
5 Apr 2024QOF Framework Guidance 2024/25
The new framework guidance document is now available. This is the one document we print out and carry around with us all year, it is so useful for checking answers for... more
4 Apr 2024What can we do to maximise QOF over the next two months?
PCA’s - have you sent invites to patients in your target groups, those patients negatively affecting you? Personalised care adjustments (previously high level exceptions) are now automatically applied... more
1 Feb 2024QOF Cholesterol Indicators
For most new diagnoses with QOF, the patient is automatically exempt for the first 3 months to give you time to achieve appropriate indicators. For cholesterol, as this is a target patient group and n... more
5 Jan 2024COPD014 - Referral to pulmonary rehab programme
This year, COPD008 was replaced by COPD014 - the wording was updated from record of an offer of referral to pulmonary rehab programme to record of referral to pulmonary rehab programme.... more
1 Jan 2024