General Practice Outcome Standards: Technical Annex
https://www.primarycare.nhs.uk/private/documents/GPOS%20Technical%20Annex%20
%28v%202%201%29.pdf
This seems a bit confusing as some of the outcomes relate to discontinued
QOF indicators
eg 26c "Appropriate as an indicator of General Practice Assurance.
In those patients with a new diagnosis of depression, recorded between the
preceding 1 April to 31 March, the percentage of patients who have had an
assessment of severity at the time of diagnosis using an assessment tool
validated for use in primary care
It looks to me like a lot of additional work and box-ticking: how important
is it to get a good score at practice level?
Mary Hawking
Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4
blog http://maryhawking.wordpress.com/ And Fred!
http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/freds-saying-you-just-dont
-get-it/
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