The QOF criteria and Read codes for: patients identified as needing a palliative care approach, heart failure and cancer.

$National Clinical Guideline Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions. NICE Clinical Guideline No 108: CHRONIC HEART FAILURE: National clinical guideline for diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care. London: National Clinical Guideline Centre; 2010.*As the therapeutic and prognostic benefits of therapy are only proven in those with reduced ejection fraction heart failure, patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction may be under represented in heart failure QOF registers.#Available as a Table S1 in File S1.The QOF criteria and Read codes for: patients identified as needing a palliative care approach, heart failure and cancer.