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Asked by Perran MoonLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 26 January 2026UIN 106752

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the clinical and administrative workload required to deliver QOF indicators in (a) practices serving highly deprived populations and (b) other practices.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

The Department consults with the profession to ensure that the Quality and Outcomes Framework’s (QOF) proposals are reasonable and deliverable for practices in England, using the relevant available performance data to inform the setting of achievement thresholds.

There are high achievement rates in the majority of practices, for instance in the 2024/25 contract year, 83.2% of practices achieved over 90% of the available QOF points.

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