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.
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.