I have a cancer care review next week but my NHS app calls it a
QOF Review F2F appointment.
Does anyone know what the QOF stands for?
I’m interested not worried but a search online leads me to a Quality and outcomes framework in an industrial setting. Surely that’s not it.
Any thoughts?
Hi Mr U, QOF started just before I entered healthcare in 2006, and it was never really popular with front line workers as it was beaurocracy led, many believed it became target driven, and not patient focused. It did bring about better registering and recording, bringing it into the digital age, but the belief the patients needs were never at the forefront persisted. I believe they reviewed it just before I retired in 2020, to address these concerns, putting the patient first. To be honest I've not heard anything about it since.
Eddie
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