Diabetes: Health Services

(asked on 10th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the suspension of the Quality and Outcome Framework on the size of the backlog of diabetes patients.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 13th January 2022

No specific assessment has been made.

In December 2021 measures were announced to increase general practice capacity and financial support to deliver an expanded vaccine programme, including part-income protecting the 2021/22 Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). However, to be eligible for income protection, practices were required to agree a plan with their commissioners to deliver QOF care where possible according to clinical risk and accounting for inequalities, in order to target and support the most vulnerable patients.

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