General Medical Services Contract: Quality and Outcomes Framework Statistics, 2011-12

Statistics in “General Medical Services Contract: Quality and Outcomes Framework Statistics for Wales, 2011-12” include data for Wales for the year to the end of March 2012. The latest bulletin updates the statistics previously released on 15 September 2011.

This release presents a summary of data from the national General Medical Services (GMS) Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) during 2011-12. The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system of financial incentives. It is about rewarding contractors for good practice (and its associated workload) through participation in an annual quality improvement cycle. Whilst it is voluntary all practices in Wales participated in 2011-12. The QOF was first implemented in April 2004, and the financial year 2011-12 therefore represents the eighth year of the QOF. The 2011-12 data is illustrated in terms of achievement, exception reporting and the number of patients on disease registers i.e. prevalence.

The key points from 2011-12 are:

• 413 (87.1 per cent) of the 474 practices in Wales achieved 950 or more of the 1,000 QOF points. In 2010-11 69.6 per cent of practices achieved this level. However changes to some of the indicators this year mean the two percentages are not comparable.
• Three quarters of practices (356 practices) achieved 643 or more of the 661 potential points in the clinical domain, the major part of QOF.
• The largest single condition disease register, in terms of the number of patients as a percentage of all patients on practice lists, was Hypertension (15.5 per cent).

Further information

Further data is available from the StatsWales website.

The spreadsheets include the results for Wales, Local Health Boards and GP practices.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 6186
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

September 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on Due Out Soon page)