Objectives To quantify the relationship between a national primary care pay-for-performance
programme, the UK's Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), and all-cause and cause …

Background Introduced in 2004, the UK's Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is the
world's largest primary care pay-for-performance programme. We tested whether the QOF …

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Objective To determine whether the withdrawal of the Quality and Outcomes Framework
(QOF) scheme in primary care in Scotland in 2016 had an impact on selected recorded …

Background General practitioners' remuneration is now linked directly to the scores attained
in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). The success of this approach depends in …

Objectives Health systems with strong primary care tend to have better population outcomes,
but in many countries demand for care is growing. We sought to identify mechanisms of …

Background General practices in the UK contract with the government to receive additional
payments for high-quality primary care. Little is known about the resulting impact on …

In England primary care groups will have a key role in promoting the health and improving
the health care of their local population. 1 By April 1999 these groups, involving all primary …

ANALYSIS Page 1 The Quality and Outcomes Framework—where next? The UK’s pay for
performance system for primary care has produced some benefits, including reducing …

Objective: To investigate the impact of factors outside the control of primary care on
performance indicators proposed as measures of the quality of primary care. Design …