QALY
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Overview
Quality-adjusted life years, or QALYs, is a way of measuring both the quality and the quantity of life lived, as a means of quantifying the benefit of a medical intervention.
Under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) of the new GP contract, GPs produce lists of patients on their registers who are suffering from cancer.
This data is then aggregated at the PCT level, they show the number of patients suffering from cancer in each PCT area.
A list of the number of cancer patients, broken down by PCT area was published by the Information Centre for Health and Social Care in September 2007, and is available if you:
QALY Details & Views
For further Details & Views
- You may be interested in a more broad based and less PC factual view, seeking to address the 'propaganda' of health care provision factually, view QALY Data and make your own decisions!
References
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