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Can performance pay in primary care reduce mortality?

By Evangelos Kontopantelis Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: March 31, 2015

Government policy assumed that incentives for general practice through performance-related-pay would improve mortality rates and other outcomes. Its scheme for doing this appears not to have worked as intended, explains Evangelos Kontopantelis. Primary care has enormous potential for improving population health outcomes – including mortality from common chronic conditions – through early intervention in the […]

Tagged With: diabetes, general practice, Health and Social Care Information Centre, incentives, mortality rates, NHS, Office for National Statistics, performance pay, primary care, QOF, Quality and Outcomes Framework

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