The Practice
Swindon
30th January 2009
Quality Team
Primary Medical Care
Room 2E56
Quarry House,
Quarry Hill
Leeds LS2 7UE
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposals for the
development of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
I am a full time general practitioner and the lead for the Quality and
Outcomes Framework within the practice. I also run the QOF Database website
http://www.gpcontract.co.uk where practice level QOF data is published.I
have modeled some changes to QOF to assess their impact before
implementation and published the results on the website. I am in the final
part of an MSc in Healthcare Informatics and recently submitted my
dissertation looking at statistical patterns within QOF data.
Secondly there is no outcome to this process which suggests that there is no
longer good evidence for this indicator and that it should be removed as no
longer clinically relevant. An additional outcome is required for this
situation.