The practice engages with the development of and follows 3 agreed care pathways for improving the management of patients in the primary care setting (unless in individual cases they justify clinical reasons for not doing this) to avoid inappropriate outpatient referrals and produces a report of the action taken to the PCO no later than 31 March 2012

Organisation	Numerator	Denominator	Ratio	Centile
HEYWOOD	39	39	100.0%	100
WIRRAL PCT	61	61	100.0%	100
HALTON AND ST HELENS …	54	54	100.0%	100
CENTRAL LANCASHIRE PCT	85	85	100.0%	100
NORTH LANCASHIRE TEACHING PCT	37	37	100.0%	100
KNOWSLEY PCT	31	31	100.0%	100
OLDHAM PCT	47	47	100.0%	100
CENTRAL AND EASTERN CHESHIRE …	52	52	100.0%	100
SEFTON PCT	52	53	98.1%	57
BOLTON PCT	50	51	98.0%	55
LIVERPOOL PCT	93	95	97.9%	54
WESTERN CHESHIRE PCT	36	37	97.3%	50
BURY PCT	30	31	96.8%	46
NORTH WEST STRATEGIC HEALTH …	1138	1177	96.7%	80
BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN TEACHING …	28	29	96.5%	44
WARRINGTON PCT	26	27	96.3%	42
SALFORD PCT	48	50	96.0%	39
STOCKPORT PCT	48	50	96.0%	39
UK	9320	9772	95.4%
BLACKPOOL PCT	20	21	95.2%	35
NHS England	7592	8002	94.9%
TRAFFORD PCT	36	38	94.7%	31
CUMBRIA TEACHING PCT	77	82	93.9%	27
TAMESIDE AND GLOSSOP PCT	39	42	92.9%	26
MANCHESTER PCT	92	101	91.1%	17
EAST LANCASHIRE TEACHING PCT	57	64	89.1%	14

QOF database

NORTH WEST STRATEGIC HEALTH AUTHORITY

Data for QP 8