TY - JOUR T1 - QOF JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 853 LP - 853 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X538967 VL - 60 IS - 580 AU - Tim Stokes AU - Nicola Bent AU - Dan Sutcliffe Y1 - 2010/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/580/853.1.abstract N2 - We welcome the editorial by Ashworth and Kordowicz on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).1 The Department of Health appointed the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to manage a new process for developing QOF indicators from April 2009. The new NICE process has a number of significant changes that should lead to the QOF acting as a vehicle for quality improvement and deliver more rigorously developed QOF indicators.First, NICE is an independent … ER -