According to a study published by the British Medical Journal, discarding fundamentals of the ‘Quality and Outcomes’ Framework, which is a yearly remuneration and reward scheme for GPs, may possibly have an unenthusiastic effect on patient care.

The preceding Government had initiated the QOF in 2004, with the promise that it will enable docs to earn additional money for hitting predefined targets in five major group signals that range from clinical areas, for example heart disease, to patient experience like length of consultation would assist in boosting the quality of primary care services.

However in the preceding year, the decision had been called off by the Department of Health that indicators would be taken away from the scheme regularly, and finally, it has given its consent that eight clinical indicators will be scrapped from the QOF in the approaching year.

As a group of researchers that was led by Helen Lester from the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester, note in the BMJ, a great deal work has been conducted on determining the effect of the introduction of monetary incentives may have on work and performance, although there is modest information available on how their succeeding elimination could eventually have an effect on patient care.