The Complete NHS Quality Reporting Guide for GP Practices and Trusts
QOF, CQC, ICS reporting, waiting list management, and PCN analytics — everything NHS organisations need to know about data reporting requirements, with a guide to making them manageable.
Quality and Outcomes Framework: 635 points, ~£190 per point
The QOF is the largest pay-for-performance programme in the NHS. For the average GP practice with a list size of 8,000–10,000 patients, achieving full QOF can represent £120,000+ in additional income annually. Most practices achieve 85–92% of maximum points — leaving significant income on the table.
QOF requires practices to maintain disease registers, achieve clinical indicator targets, and manage exception reporting carefully. The challenge: understanding in real-time which indicators are at risk of missing their upper threshold, which patients have been exception-reported incorrectly, and where targeted recall activity would increase achievement. This requires regular analysis of clinical data that most practice management systems do not make easy to access.
CQC Inspection Readiness: The Five Domains
The “Effective” domain is where data analytics has the most direct impact. CQC inspectors review clinical quality indicators, audit completion rates, and evidence that the practice systematically monitors and improves clinical performance. Vizier helps you generate this evidence from your existing EMIS or SystmOne data.
Integrated Care System performance reporting
Following the Health and Care Act 2022, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) have responsibility for population health management, system-wide quality improvement, and NHS Long Term Plan delivery. ICSs require practices and trusts to report population health data, referral patterns, and quality indicators at system level.
Vizier enables GP practices to analyse their contribution to ICS-level metrics and prepare the population health data that ICS reporting requires — without additional IT infrastructure investment.
The 18-week RTT standard and waiting list management
The NHS waiting list exceeded 7.5 million patients in 2024. The RTT (Referral to Treatment) 18-week standard is being breached at record rates across multiple specialties. Trusts and ICSs need analytics that identify which patients are approaching breach, which specialties have the highest breach risk, and where capacity can be redirected.
Vizier analyses standard waiting list exports (PAS system outputs, referral management system data) to identify breach risk and support capacity planning decisions.
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