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Friends & Family Test – submission deadlines
Reminder of the submission window for FFT results – submitted via CQRS, practices must submit the total number of responses in each category & responses for each collection method.... more
11 Jan 2024GP Online Services - children & young people
Did you know the first milestone for children to access online services via an NHS app is when the child reaches the age of 11? Document available from RCGP which covers proxy access, safeguarding is... more
11 Jan 2024Funding for nursing associates
Financial support is provided for trainee nursing associates (TNAs) in general practice and primary care networks. Each TNA is eligible for an £8,160 employer grant, along with Apprenticeship levy fun... more
10 Jan 20242024 GP patient survey
The 2024 GP patient survey will be the start of a new series. Changes have been made to the questions to give a stronger focus to patient experience of modern general practice access, as set out in..... more
8 Jan 2024QOF Cholesterol Indicators
For most new diagnoses with QOF, the patient is automatically exempt for the first 3 months to give you time to achieve appropriate indicators. For cholesterol, as this is a target patient group and n... more
5 Jan 2024Regular Consultancy Days
This month we have seen a massive uptake of practice consultancy days and I completely understand why - practice managers have this need to keep every plate spinning, this super-being who is an exper... more
3 Jan 2024MCC Workflow Refresher
Insight deliver flexible training and consultancy days - we do not have any off-the-shelf training programmes, no set agendas, the aim is, at the end of the day, you have a process which your GP’s... more
2 Jan 2024The good news is …
Emis have released QOF version 48 1.4 so some of the previous QOF indicator medication issues have been fixed such as AF008.... more
2 Jan 2024COPD014 - Referral to pulmonary rehab programme
This year, COPD008 was replaced by COPD014 - the wording was updated from record of an offer of referral to pulmonary rehab programme to record of referral to pulmonary rehab programme.... more
1 Jan 2024MH021 - PCA’s & AF008
Top level PCA codes, such as informed dissent, patient unsuitable and non responders, will not affect achievement for this indicator. However, individual declined codes will remove patients from an... more
12 Dec 2023