For updates, if you are a BMA member, see www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Hubthenewgmscontract. For 2009/10 guidance see here. From 2010, NICE is responsible for reviewing and amending QOF indicators.
Note that this is the 2009/10 version, which updates the original contract and therefore the numbers are not sequential and there are some missing to reflect changes and to ensure that any comparative studies are clear what is being compared.
Asthma
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Indicator
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Points
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Payment stages
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Records
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ASTHMA 1. The practice can produce a register of patients with asthma, excluding patients with asthma who have been prescribed no asthma-related drugs in the previous twelve months
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4
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Initial Management
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ASTHMA 8. The percentage of patients aged eight and over diagnosed as having asthma from 1 April 2006 with measures of variability or reversibility
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15
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40-80%
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Ongoing management
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ASTHMA 3. The percentage of patients with asthma between the ages of 14 and 19 in whom there is a record of smoking status in the previous 15 months
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6
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40-80%
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ASTHMA 6. The percentage of patients with asthma who have had an asthma review in the previous 15 months
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20
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40-70%
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Indicator
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Points
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Payment Stages
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Records
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COPD 1. The practice can produce a register of patients with COPD
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3
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Initial diagnosis
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COPD 12. The percentage of all patients with COPD diagnosed after 1.4.08 in whom the diagnosis has been confirmed by post bronchodilator spirometry.
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5
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40-80%
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Ongoing management
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COPD 10. The percentage of patients with COPD with a record of FeV1 in the previous 15 months
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7
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40-70%
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COPD 13: Replaces COPD 11
The percentage of patients with COPD who have had a review, undertaken by a healthcare professional, including an assessment of breathlessness using the MRC dyspnoea score in the previous 15 months
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9
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50-90%
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COPD 8. The percentage of patients with COPD who have had influenza immunisation in the preceding 1 September to 31 March
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6
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40-85%
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Smoking Indicators
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Indicator
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Points
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Payment Stages
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Ongoing management
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Smoking 3: The percentage of patients with any or any combination of the following conditions: coronary heart disease, stroke or TIA, hypertension, diabetes, COPD, CKD, asthma, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder or other psychoses whose notes record smoking status in the previous 15 months.
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30
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40-90%
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Smoking 4: The percentage of patients with any or any combination of the following conditions: coronary heart disease, stroke or TIA, hypertension, diabetes, COPD, CKD, asthma, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder or other psychoses who smoke whose notes contain a record that smoking cessation advice or referral to a specialist service, where available, has been offered within the previous 15 months
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30
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40-90%
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