Commissioning - Practice Profiles
The LHO’s Practice Profiles have been developed to assist GPs and primary care commissioners in ensuring they are providing
and commissioning adequate levels of effective and appropriate healthcare services for their local population. The tool has been
developed to provide a consistent approach to the benchmarking of primary care services within the capital. It focuses on 89
indicators of primary and secondary care, providing measures of practice quality alongside demographic and estimated ethnic
population data.
The profiles consist of a large range of indicators that can be used for commissioning, needs assessment, monitoring of
population health and service utilisation, performance management and clinical governance reviews. They pull together the
latest full year data from the Quality Outcome Framework (QOF), Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and a range of other data
sources. They provide a consistent methodological approach to comparing and benchmarking across London.
Click below to launch the practice profiles tool
In summary, the profiles provide answers to the following questions:
Practice list demographics
- What is the number of patients per practice, their age, sex, and ethnicity?
- How many are living in deprived areas, social housing, or claim benefits?
Lifestyle and other risk factors
- What is the prevalence of obesity, binge drinking, and smoking for the practice?
- What proportion of the practice list engage in the physical activity, or have been given advice on smoking cessation?
Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disorders
- What are the estimated prevalence rates and how do these compare to the numbers known to the practice?
- How well is the practice doing at treating these conditions, and how many patients from the practice are admitted to hospital for these illnesses?
Other conditions
- What proportion of the practice list has the GP identified as having cancer, chronic kidney disease, hypothyroidism, epilepsy, dementia, mental health problems or learning disabilities?
- How well are practices treating these patients?
Secondary care service use
- How many people from the practice list have emergency admissions during the year?
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