The QOF Database
The QOF Database presents official QOF data in an easy-to-digest format. You can see our data up to 2015 here, and can compare our performance with the rest of Orkney, Scotland and UK.
You will quickly see that we appear to have higher prevalences of high blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease, stroke and diabetes than the rest of Orkney. The reasons for this are probably related as much to the quality of our records as to the actual burden of disease but our population is generally old and it is not surprising that we have large numbers of people living with the diseases of old age.
2015 was the last year for which results for Hoy & Walls were available - from 2016 our results have been combined with those of Westray, Stronsay and Sanday - the Orcades Practice. This has have some benefits - the results for the new practice are more meaningful because of the much larger denominator, but we have lost some of the nuances.
