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The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) identifies where practices have achieved set quality measures, financially rewarding them where they are able to demonstrate that they have met that level of quality. This provides incentive to provide good patient care, and a financial reward that can be reinvested into the services provided by the practice. Diabetes UK submitted a response and recommendations to the review of the General Medical Service (GMS) contract and the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in February 2007.
Whilst we recognise that the QOF has made an advance in the management of people with long term conditions by introducing a structure that monitors specific information around those conditions, both the GMS and QOF are very focussed on biomedical outcomes and are not built to deal with individual holistic care, and the submission of evidence within the QOF review process is very clinically focussed with a bias toward randomised control trials.
Our submission included many ideas that reflect Diabetes UK’s aim for a holistic approach to diabetes care that incorporates biomedical and other indicators.
View full details of the submission here.
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