 Dr Simon Clay gives advice on coding and organisation to ensure practices keep up with key changes to the QOF |
Thousands of GP practices across the country face clawbacks of up to £800 on payments made last year because of a QOF calculation error dating back to 2010, as managers try to recoup overpayments.
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 GPs should be incentivised through QOF to ask all patients about their alcohol intake and have a ‘stepped programme’ of interventions for problem drinkers, MPs have been told. |
 NICE advisers call for QOF shake-up as framework too focussed on areas of ‘relatively low benefit to health’NICE advisers have recommended a radical change to the way QOF is drawn up, with incentives paid to GP practices under the scheme determined by the magnitude of the expected ‘health gain’. |
 Dr Richard Blakey describes how his heart failure service – as part of a new quality improvement programme – reduced admissions and boosted diagnoses |
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Dr Simon Clay gives advice on coding and organisation to ensure practices keep up with key changes to the QOF |
 Caroline Kerby takes five key questions, from VAT to under-achieving indicators. |
 Read Pulse’s special report for tips on new and upcoming indicators, dilemmas, managing QOF finance and next year’s A&E indicator. |
 Chairman Dr Bob Mack looks ahead to this week's Scottish LMCs conference |
 GPs’ individualism is being eroded and their professionalism demeaned, says Dr James Sherifi. |
 You can see the Government’s logic as it settled on 31 new QOF points for ‘reducing avoidable visits to accident and emergency departments’. |
