Professor Bruce Guthrie, Director of the ACRC, has provided a lay summary infographic on his recent paper. The UK Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) was introduced in 2004, and meant that about one fifth of general practitioners’ (GP s) income depended on their performance measured by 150 quality indicators. QOF cost hundreds of millions of pounds per year, and imposed considerable work on GPs. You can find the paper, in full, here. Publication date 24 Jun, 2025