Overview:

This webinar is aimed at helping practices better understand the quality improvement journey and key QI tools and processes to use

Learning objectives:

  1. How to start your QI project and how to set up a QI project team
  2. Establishing aims and defining measurement criteria – ‘what success looks like’
  3. Recognising QI tools you may already use and understanding others which can help
  4. How to sustain new practice and improvements

Who is it for:

Practice QI leads, PCN QI leads, and all members of practice clinical or admin teams interested in improving quality and patient outcomes

Background:

Following NHS England’s review of QOF in 2017/18, NHS England and the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee commissioned the RCGP, NICE, and the Health Foundation to develop QI modules for inclusion in the GMS contract. The QI QOF domain recommends the use of QI cycles to address priority areas. In 2019/20 this included modules focused on end-of-life care and prescribing safety.

In 2021/22 QOF comprises two modules: the early diagnosis of cancer and care of people with learning disabilities.

Additional information

QOF in 2021/22 from NHS England and Improvement

Resources to support practices on QOF can be found on the RCGP website and the QI Ready website.