Traffic Light Analysis Report
"Traffic Light Report Explained "
• Calculation of results for each question.
For most questions, your patients' responses are tranformed to a scale of 0 to 100. 100 represents the best possible response; 0, the worst. For other questions, the value for the indicator is normally a percentage. Where it is possible to compare these scores to national averages, we have done so. In these instances, scores are given a 'traffic-light' to indicate whether they are much higher or lower than average.
• Reading the traffic light values.
The traffic-light values relate to how one GP (or practice) compares to other GPs (or practices). They are adjusted to be comparable with the national benchmarks, published by the NPCDRC. The colour indicates whether you are lower or higher than others. For most of the GPAQ indicators, green represents a high score (you're doing well) and red a low score (not so well) in comparison to other GPs or practices. These colours are determined by your ‘percentile rank’. For example, if your patients rate you more highly than 95% (19 out of 20) of other GPs' patients, then your 'percentile rank' will be 96 or higher. The converse also applies. If they rate you as poorly as the bottom 4% of GPs' patients, then your 'percentile rank' for this indicator will be 4 or less. Percentile ranks from 0 to 4 correspond to red (5% of GPs), 5 to 33 correspond to yellow (29% of GPs) and 34 to 100 correspond to green (66% or two-thirds of GPs). Not all indicators have a national mean for comparison, so only some are traffic-lighted in this way.
• Interpretation.
For most of the Patient Survey indicators, green is better than average and yellow to red are increasingly worse than average. The results are the opinions of patients responding to the survey and may not be representative if the number of reponses used in the analysis is less than 50.
- View a full example of our GPAQ traffic light analysis. (PDF document)
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