In how many GP practices in each NHS board area the Quality and Outcomes Framework funding has (a) increased, (b) remained the same and (c)…

The table below shows the number of practices for which total Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payments for 2008-09 (a) increased by 1% or more, (b) changed by less than 1% and (c) decreased by 1% or more relative to 2007-08. No practice received exactly the same QOF payment in both years. The table is based on data for 996 Scottish General Practices that were open in both years and for which detailed comparable payments data are held centrally. For context, in each of these years the total number of GP practices in Scotland was around 1,015.
As explained in question S3W-31402 on 25 February 2010, the overall change in payments made to practices for the 2008-09 year was the product of a number of changes made to the structure of the QOF between 2007-08 and 2008-09, which included, but were not limited to, the introduction of new indicators derived from the 2008-09 GP patient access survey. Detailed information on the QOF points achieved by Scottish general practices in each year is published at www.isdscotland.org/qof.
Change to total QOF Payments between 2007-08 and 2008-092
NHS Board
| Number of Practices1
| (a) Increased by 1% or More
| (b) Changed by Less than 1%
| (c) Decreased by 1% or More

Ayrshire and Arran
| 59
| 7
| 13
| 39

Borders
| 25
| 7
| 10
| 8

Dumfries and Galloway
| 35
| 5
| 18
| 12

Fife
| 56
| 10
| 12
| 34

Forth Valley
| 56
| 13
| 14
| 29

Grampian
| 76
| 19
| 26
| 31

Greater Glasgow and Clyde
| 271
| 47
| 79
|