Five years after its new quality improvement practice incentive was announced, the Department of Health has finally revealed the list of patient outcomes GP practices must track to receive payments.

The quality improvement (QI) incentive will be the centrepiece of an overhauled Practice Incentives Program (PIP) that pays GP clinics to collect patient data and send it to primary health networks.

The revamp, due to be in place by August, has had a troubled history, with concerns it will veer into pay-for-performance and claims it will end up a Trojan horse for funding cuts.

This week the health department published the initial batch of patient outcomes that practices will have to measure.