Revisions to QOF Patient Experience Points 2006

© Martin Breach

Haydock Medical Centre

 

 

 

Patient experience: 108 points

 

PE1 Length of consultations 33 points

 

The length of routine booked appointments with the doctors in the practice is not less than ten minutes.

 

For practices with only an open surgery system, the average face to face time spent by the GP with the patient is at least eight minutes.

 

Practices that routinely operate a mixed economy of booked and open surgeries should report on both criteria.

 

 

PE 2 Patient surveys  (1)       25 points  40

The practice will have undertaken an approved patient survey each year.

 

PE 5 Patient surveys  (2)       20 points  15

The practice will have undertaken a patient survey each year and, having reflected on the results, will produce an action plan that:

1. summarises the findings of the survey

2. summarises the findings of the previous year’s survey

3. reports on the activities undertaken in the past year to address patient experience issues.

(Previously, “will have reflected on the results and have proposed changes if appropriate”)

 

 

PE 6 Patient surveys  (3)       30 points  15

The practice will have undertaken a patient survey each year and, having reflected on the results, will produce an action plan that:

1. sets priorities for the next two years

2. describes how the practice will report the findings to patients (for example,

posters in the practice, a meeting with a patient practice group or a PCO

approved patient representative)

3. describes the plans for achieving the priorities, including indicating the lead person in the practice

4. considers the case for collecting additional information on patient experience, for example through surveys of patients with specific illnesses, or consultation with a patient group.

(Previously “will have discussed the results as a team and with either a patient group or Non-Executive Director of the PCO. Appropriate changes will have been proposed with some evidence that the changes have been enacted”)