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QOF 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 2024QOF Priorities & Actions
With only 3 months of the current financial year left, do you understand your outstanding QOF workload for 23/24? Which of this outstanding workload is achievable and how does it impact your already... more
27 Mar 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 2024QOF - CHOL001 & CHOL002
We've had a number of support tickets around both achievement and exclusion in the new CHOL domain, we thought it would be useful to try and simplify both indicators for you: CHOL001 - Patients w... more
10 Nov 2023Prevalence Rates 2022/23
The updated prevalence rates have been released for 2022/23 - these are the latest figures we can use to calculate your practice prevalence compared with national prevalence.... more
1 Nov 2023QOF - CHOL001 & CHOL002
Diabetic patients are excluded from CHOL001 but not from CHOL002. DM patients will still be found in the CHOL002 indicator and are expected to hit the cholesterol monitoring requirements. They are... more
11 Oct 2023QOF Exception Codes (Personalised Care Adjustments - PCA’s)
Following on from a few queries this month, we just wanted to touch on exception coding (or PCA’s as they are now known although we still all call them exceptions!!)... more
4 Oct 2023QOF, QOF, QOF..
COPD014 The wording for COPD014 has changed this year to measure the number of referrals made rather than offers of referrals. The new wording for the indicator is: The percentage of patients with CO... more
6 Sep 2023