Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) performance

About the dashboard

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) prevalence dashboards provide insight into prevalence of asthma and COPD, as well as smoking rates, across a range of organisation types, and shows how these compare with the national average. The QOF performance dashboards provide insight into how well patients with asthma and COPD are managed within the primary care setting and whether care standards are being met at a national and local level.

About the data source

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary annual reward and incentive programme for all GP practices in England, detailing practice achievement results and is designed to reward good practice. The QOF contains five main components, known as domains. The five domains are: Clinical; Public Health and Public Health – Additional Services, Public Health – Vaccination and Immunisation and Quality Improvement. Each domain consists of a set of achievement measures, known as indicators, against which practices score points according to their level of achievement. The QOF gives an indication of the overall achievement of a practice through a points system. Practices aim to deliver high quality care across a range of areas for which they score points. The QOF helps practices compare the delivery and quality of care currently provided against the achievements of previous years. Ultimately, the aim is to improve standards of care by assessing and benchmarking the quality-of-care patients receive.

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