Contents 1. Introduction 2. Summary of all indicators 3. Income Protection Payments 4. Detailed clinical guidance for new indicators 5. Indicators no longer in QOF (INLIQ) 6. Quality Improvement Reporting Templates   Publishing approval reference: C0713 1. Introduction 1.1 Background The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary scheme within the General Medical Services […]

Contents Introduction The access challenges Further actions A. Increase and optimise capacity B. Address variation and encourage good practice C. Zero tolerance of abuse and public communications   Classification: Official Publication approval reference: BW999 14 October 2021 Introduction 1. General practice is the bedrock of the NHS. The NHS has always relied on its resilience. […]

Contents Summary of services that could temporarily be paused Services that should continue or continue with prioritised waiting lists Community services prioritisation framework Classification: Official Publication approval reference: PAR1257 11 January 2022 Given the increasing pressures on the health system due to the Omicron wave of COVID-19 this winter and the need to provide booster […]

This updated Operating Model continues to address six contemporary challenges. Challenge 1: Keeping general practice and patients safe Challenge 2: Supporting general practice deliver their contracted services Challenge 3: Enabling service improvement, transformation and digital innovation Challenge 4: Supporting new models of care and contracts Challenge 5: Supporting general practice meet patients’ digital expectations Challenge […]

Contents Background and purpose The current picture The Cancer Recovery Taskforce Plan on a page Success measures Planning for winter Key actions Appendix A: Supporting delivery of our Phase 3 aims Appendix B:How our approach aligns with the plans and priorities of the wider NHS Appendix C: Our key actions in Phase 1 – ensuring […]

In the last of a series of blogs previewing this week’s 2018 CNO Summit, NHS England’s Head of Maternity, Children and Young People and the Director of the Maternity Transformation Programme highlight the progress made across the country to implement the vision set out in Better Births and give a taste of the session they […]

NHS England’s National Clinical Directors for Dementia and End of Life Care, together with Clinical Fellow Elena Baker Glenn, examine the stark findings of a recent national end of life care intelligence network briefing on dementia: Death and dying are emotive subjects at the best of times and there has recently been interest and publicity […]

A Healthier Future used NHS England and NHS Improvement’s workforce Health and Wellbeing Framework across an entire Integrated Care System What we’ve done Who we are ‘A Healthier Future’ is the Integrated Care System (ICS) covering Hertfordshire and West Essex in the east of England. We have a combined health and care workforce of 56,000 […]

Contents The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) Wider measures Additional telephony support Next steps Appendix 1: QOF performance-based indicators 2021/22 Appendix 2: QOF income-protected indicators 2021/22 Appendix 3: Performance-based IIF indicators 2021/22 Appendix 4: Suspended IIF indicators 2021/22   Classification: Official Publication approval reference: C1475 To: GP practices Primary care […]

In 2017, following the largest clinical ambulance trials in the world, NHS England implemented new ambulance standards across the country. This was to ensure the sickest patients get the fastest response and that all patients get the right response first time. It updated a decades old system and provided the ambulance service with a strong […]