Section | Types of questions/prompts |
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Background | What is your professional background? |
How many years have you been qualified? | |
How many sessions do you work in a usual week? | |
How would you describe your role in the practice? | |
General | What has your involvement been in developing the local QOF? |
What has your involvement been in implementing the local QOF within your practice? | |
Your opinions | |
Appropriateness of incentivised targets | Robustness/credibility of evidence base |
Costs | |
Relevance | Clinical benefit |
Local population needs | |
Fairness of indicators | Distribution of workload |
Scope for gaming | |
Implications for tackling inequalities | |
Acceptability of targets | Compare to national targets |
How does the local scheme work? | |
How does the scheme influence what you do? | Ownership of change/engagement |
Motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic) | |
Social comparison, performance management and surveillance | |
Organisational means employed to achieve targets | |
Consequences | Effect on practice staff and consultations |
- Benefits and unintended consequences | |
Effect on patients and patient care | |
- Benefits and unintended consequences | |
Change required to achieve targets | |
Are you still maintaining these targets even though the scheme has ended? | |
How could local QOF be modified and/or improved? | How it should be introduced |
How implemented on a day to day basis in the practice | |
Local versus national benefits and harms? | |
Anything else that you would like to add? |