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A leading GP has urged ministers to abandon this year's QOF and use the money to ease winter pressures, following the deal to shrink the scheme dramatically from 2014.
Dr Peter Swinyard, chairman of the Family Doctor Association, said money allocated for the 2013/14 QOF should be ploughed into global sum funding for GP practices.
Speaking at the NHS Alliance annual conference in London, Dr Swinyard hailed the GPC's renegotiation of QOF, which will see 238 points move into core funding from April, as an 'outstanding success'.
'It...