Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on activity in general practice, QOF implementation was changed for the 2020-21 reporting year. The majority of QOF indicators were income protected (i.e. payments were made to practices irrespective of activity recorded for indicators in 2020-21), to enable practices to direct resources towards COVID-19 response and targeting care at the most vulnerable and high-need groups. For the 2020-21 reporting year, this website includes prevalence data only, achievement and PCA data is available in the .csv files included in the 2020-21 QOF publication.

Payment protection continued to be in place for QOF 2021-22 with achievement, prevalence and PCA data being available on this website.

Payment protection was removed for QOF 2022-23 and reinstated for QOF 2023-24.

Published achievement data for payment protected indicators in 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2023-24 may not have been indicative of activity in those years. Therefore, it is inadvisable to compare these indicators or the indicator groups to which they belong between these years as achievement data for 2022-23 is indicative of activity in that year.

Further information on the income protection measures applied to QOF can be found on the Quality and outcomes framework guidance for 2023/24.

• QOF on NHS England's website
• QOF 2023-24 report and data tables

• Business rules
• CQRS
• GPES