Performance management, appraisals, and revalidation: quantity analysis and quality control for UK GPs

摘要

A huge amount of information about GPs is available now. It is not all of great quality, but it is serviceable, and it needs to be acknowledged, and acted upon. The information is both qualitative and quantitative and it partially measures our performance as GPs. Some of the information is held at the level of the local area1 by primary care trusts (and increasingly by commissioning consortia) and some is held by us within our practices. It needs to be brought together.