Health checks for carers in QOF from 2014/15

Annual health checks for carers could be added to the QOF from 2014/15 after provisional targets were approved by a NICE expert panel.

The move would see GPs earn points for keeping a register of patients who care for people with dementia and for assessing their health annually.

The panel also backed ambulatory BP monitoring for hypertension diagnosis, as revealed by GP (GP, 6 June). But proposals to screen for alcohol abuse were put on hold as GP experts warned about workload impact and lack of clinical evidence.

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