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The data presented below represents another year of hard work by primary care teams nationally; successfully managing people with diabetes and their associated cardiovascular risk. This is now the third year of the publication of QOF data, and it continues to show how successful the primary care community can be when they pursue evidence-based targets, thus, justifying the Governments' investment in incentives to reward high performance.
There is a steady and consistent increase in the documentation of both hypertension and diabetes, whereas both coronary heart disease and stroke seem to have stabilised, perhaps representing better management of these conditions. The database associated with the QOF data continues to supply interesting prevalence rates for diabetes within the four nations making up the... |
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