QOF Year End 2018/19 Update
19 March 2019
Dear Practices,
QOF Year End 2018/19 Update
This update contains:
- QOF Year-end actions required
- Year-end support and contact details
1. QOF Year-end actions required
Preparation and actions for the 2018/19 year-end QOF collection must be completed by the deadlines indicated. This will enable us to collect your 2018/19 QOF achievement payments and calculate 2019/20 aspiration payments. Preparation actions required:
- Make sure you have agreed to participate in the QOF 2018/19 information collection within CQRS. If you are unsure, please contact your Commissioning Organisation as a matter of urgency.
- You will also need to manually input achievements for the following four required manual indicators. This can be completed at any time but must be submitted by midnight on 31 March 2019.
- PC002 – Palliative Care
- SMOK003 – Smoking
- CS001 – Cervical screening
- CS004 – Cervical screening
Please see the QOF manual indicators guide on NHS digital's website for details on how to manually input for the four above indicators.
If you don’t complete the above two steps, you will not be able to declare QOF 2018/19 achievement for payment, and payments may be delayed.
- Agree to participate in QOF 2019/20 within CQRS. You should have received an offer for this from your Regional Local Office or Clinical Commissioning Group. To view and accept the service, you must manually change the financial year to 2019/20 under the Participation Management tab. Agreeing to participate must be completed by midnight on 29 March 2019.
- Please then work through and complete all the relevant actions in the QOF 2018/19 year-end checklist on NHS digital's website.
All the four preparation activities above must be completed to ensure 2019/20 aspiration payments are calculated. If you do not complete all steps, your aspiration payment for April 2019 may be delayed.
The QOF data will be collected via GPES from 1 – 3 April 2019. Data (including achievement data) will be available to view in CQRS between 5 - 6 April 2019. This information will be used to calculate payment.
Please see further CQRS updates for details. We will be distributing an update on Monday 8 April 2019 to inform individuals if the data collection has / has not been a success, and if you have not received data, what action needs to be taken in order to receive payment.
Achievement summary report
Once your practice’s achievement has been calculated, you can run the achievement summary report for QOF. For full details on how to do this, please refer to the FAQs on NHS digital's website.
2. Year-end user support
If you have any further year-end related enquiries that have not been resolved through the year-end specific FAQs on NHS digital's website please contact the following:
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