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The Quality and Outcomes Framework was set up by the government in 2004. A series of targets was set in areas such as diabetes, asthma, practice management and patient experience. Points were allocated to each section and incentive payments made depending on achievement.

Oddly, the government seem unhappy about the high level of achievement that General Practice as a profession has delivered. This has resulted in a good deal of relentlessly negative spin in the newspapers. Each year they have made the targets tougher and reduced the financial incentives available. Even so, most practices have continued to deliver extremely high quality care.

I am pleased to say our practice has achieved outstanding quality in all measurable areas. Results for all years up to 2008/9 are available on the website. We have achieved maximum or near-maximum results each year.

No doubt higher targets still will continue to be set and the funding cut year on year but I am confident we can deliver whatever this government throws at us.

You can view more details of our disease prevalences and overall achievements here.

This year the government have sent out questionnaires to a random sample of our patients. We have received the results which are available to view here. In it's current raw format the data is a little hard to interpret but in time we will post a "digest" which is hopefully a bit more user friendly. You will need a pdf reader.