QOF Plus Year 1 - Imperial College London

Appendix 3Current levels of attainment and exception reporting forexisting clinical indicatorsPurpose of these dataThe following pages display graphs summarising the distribution of attainment and exceptionreporting within Hammersmith and Fulham and comparison with national patterns for the 12existing QOF indicators that have revised upper thresholds in QOF+.Visualisation and exploration of these played a key role in the target setting and point allocationprocess for these indicators.They are included so that practices can see how their performance compares at both a local andnational level.Data sourcesAttainment and exception reporting data for individual Hammersmith and Fulham practices werecalculated from the most recent QMAS submissions (June 02 2008). Historical attainment figureswere sourced from QOF 2004/5 data compiled and made publicly available by Dr Gavin Jamie athttp://www.gpcontract.co.uk. The indicators DM 20 and MH 6 were not introduced until QOF2006/7 and historical data from that session are used instead for these.National attainment and exception rates (for all indicators except CS 1) were calculated frompractice-level data (for England) from the 2007/08 QOF submission made publicly available by theNHS Information Centre.http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/supporting-information/audits-andperformance/the-quality-and-outcomes-framework/qof-2007/08/data-tablesException reporting data for CS 1 were kindly provided by the Information Centre.116