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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 1246575" data-attributes="member: 52527"><p>There was a proposal that statin prescription should be one of the QOF targets for 2016 (the Quality and Outcomes Framework rewards practices for the provision of 'quality care'). GPs were up in arms about this, pointing out that this would reward GPs who prescribed a statin routinely for all patients with a greater than 10% QRisk but would fail to reward GPs who had a discussion with the patient about lifestyle modification, their risk of CHD, balance of benefits versus harms of statin therapy and then respected patient choice of whether to take a statin or not. See this article in the GP magazine, Pulse, for full discussion:- <a href="http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/gps-to-be-incentivised-to-prescribe-statins-at-10-risk-threshold-under-nice-proposals/20009045.fullarticle" target="_blank">http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/gps-to-be-incentivised-to-prescribe-statins-at-10-risk-threshold-under-nice-proposals/20009045.fullarticle</a></p><p></p><p>You can read the guidance for the current QOF here (pp 54-64 address diabetes):-</p><p> <a href="http://www.nhsemployers.org/~/media/Employers/Documents/Primary%20care%20contracts/QOF/2016-17/2016-17%20QOF%20guidance%20documents.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nhsemployers.org/~/media/Employers/Documents/Primary care contracts/QOF/2016-17/2016-17 QOF guidance documents.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Horse, post: 1246575, member: 52527"] There was a proposal that statin prescription should be one of the QOF targets for 2016 (the Quality and Outcomes Framework rewards practices for the provision of 'quality care'). GPs were up in arms about this, pointing out that this would reward GPs who prescribed a statin routinely for all patients with a greater than 10% QRisk but would fail to reward GPs who had a discussion with the patient about lifestyle modification, their risk of CHD, balance of benefits versus harms of statin therapy and then respected patient choice of whether to take a statin or not. See this article in the GP magazine, Pulse, for full discussion:- [URL]http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/gps-to-be-incentivised-to-prescribe-statins-at-10-risk-threshold-under-nice-proposals/20009045.fullarticle[/URL] You can read the guidance for the current QOF here (pp 54-64 address diabetes):- [URL]http://www.nhsemployers.org/~/media/Employers/Documents/Primary%20care%20contracts/QOF/2016-17/2016-17%20QOF%20guidance%20documents.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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