Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS)

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS), together with General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) is the system that calculates payments to GPs under the Quality & Outcomes Framework (QOF).

CQRS can calculate achievement and payments on quality services, including the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). At this time Enhanced Services (ES) must still be submitted manually for payment. Cegedim Healthcare Solutions provide the manual CQRS Reporting or Monitoring audits, within Clinical Audit to facilitate this.

Note - CQRS uses data supplied by NHS Digital which includes data from GPES.

CQRS was developed to support the organisational structures and commissioning arrangements being implemented as a result of the Health and Social Care Act. It can calculate achievement and payments for any service that follows the same data collection and calculating logic as the main services. This includes locally commissioned services.

It is expected that CQRS will be available to all users for longer periods of time than Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) and that it will be easy and quick to adapt to any changes in payments, with little or no cost, should they arise.

Enhanced Services

As new Enhanced Services are introduced, some extract using GPES immediately, but some have a short delay before the automated extraction begins. Cegedim Healthcare Solutions release new audits to all English practices via CentraStage. They are also available from the Clinical Audit Help Centre.

See Monitoring GPES Extractions for details.
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