Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what categories of Quality and Outcomes Framework payments are available to general practitioner practices.

The national Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary incentive scheme that provides additional reward to general practitioner (GP) practices for how well they care for patients based on performance against a number of agreed indicators. Each indicator is worth a maximum number of points and GP practices are then rewarded financially on the number of points they achieve. All GP practices can choose to take part in QOF and the majority choose to do so.

NHS Employers publish detailed guidance on the QOF. A copy of this guidance has been placed in the Library.