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 expert in HR, IT, finance, business development, facilities, complaints, flu & COVID clinics to name but a few. The job has become […]

This month there are changes to the smartcards used for signing electronic prescriptions. All relevant computers and devices must have the software Oberthur middleware installed. Middleware is the communications link between applications on a computer and the specialised computer code located on the smartcard chip. You should ensure Oberthur middleware is used to avoid disruption […]

There are significant changes to the routine childhood vaccination schedule and to the selective hepatitis B (HepB) programme 1 July 2025 and 1 January 2026, including the introduction of a new routine vaccination appointment at 18 months. This is as a  result of the discontinuation of the manufacture of Menitorix (Hib/MenC) vaccine. This has prompted […]

Judging by the number of private letters for patients commencing GLP-1 our coding team are getting currently, we imagine many of you are getting a bit bogged down by these.  The process we recommend is our coding team will add a code for anti-obesity medication started and send to the pharmacy team for them to […]

Patients register via the “Register with a GP surgery” online service Registrations are sent directly to SystmOne If criteria are met, patients are auto-registered instantly No need for manual input from practice staff NHS England is currently rolling this out but you can opt in anytime and start saving valuable admin time. More information available on the link […]

There is still a lot of confusion around Personalised Care Adjustments (PCA’s) and Exceptions and when to use them.  PCA’s were introduced in April 2019, to differentiate  between adjusting care and removing a patient from a denominator. PCA’s are automatically applied following the use of appropriate invite codes.  Exception codes, both top level and single […]

To avoid confusion, the services listed below have increased from £10.06 to £12.06 per vaccine administered: Childhood Immunisations Hexavalent (6-in-1) vaccination programme 2025/28 (6IN125) HepB vaccination programme 2025/28 (HEPB25) Meningococcal B (MenB) vaccination programme 2025/28 (MENB25) MMR and MMRV Vaccination Programme 2025/28 (MMR25) Pneumococcal, Haemophilus influenzae type B and Meningitis C 2025/28 (PHMC25) Rotavirus (Routine […]

NDH002 – % patients with NDH who have had a HbA1c or fasting glucose performed in the last 12m NDH or pre-diabetes is designed to intervene to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. NDH has the fastest growing prevalence rate; 1.07% increase in the last comparison with more than 5 million people […]

If you add a code for administration of … and then add brand/manufacturer, it will not appear. For it to appear on the FP34D report it first needs to be added as a medicine to the patients acute list and have the box ticked for personally administered. This is really important to ensure you are […]

Launched in May, the NHS retrospective genetic testing programme provides genetic testing via R208/7 panels to people who have previously received a diagnosis of high grade non-mucinous epithelial ovarian cancer, triple negative breast cancer, or bilateral breast cancer. These patients are eligible for genetic testing but records highlight they have not yet received testing. The […]

Many practices have asked us why their monthly QOF aspiration payments have gone down. 71 points have been taken out of QOF year this compared to last year – aspiration payments are made based on previous achievement. This is the same this year but for a reduced number of points so you will see around […]

It seems you’ve missed us offering apprenticeships in general practice almost as much as we have – thank you for the great response following our re-launch and overview webinar last month. There has been a big push around apprenticeships and these are, once again, set to grow with so many younger people not wishing to […]

These figures are based on the average sized practice of 10184 patients – if you have more patients than average these figures will be increased, if you have less than average patients these figures will be decreased (depending on prevalence). If you don’t understand how this works (it can be really complicated), or you want […]

Sunday 1st Jun 2025 Keeping up-to-date with document workflow and ensuring as many documents are processed without clinical intervention seems to be one of your biggest issues currently. Do you have a backlog of documents awaiting processing which is keeping you awake at night? Do you have GP’s who are bogged down with admin and […]

Do you want to find out more about apprenticeships as an employer? Whether this is something you are thinking about doing imminently or it is just on your to-do list to find out more information for future workforce/succession planning, to find out more contact us at info@insightsol.co.uk The government have launched an ambitious new Skills Policy […]

The NHS is undergoing significant structural reforms, including plans to reduce the number of ICBs from 42 to between 23 and 28, alongside a 50% cut in their running costs. These changes are part of a broader initiative to streamline operations and address financial challenges within the health service. ICBs have been instructed to submit […]

71 less points to achieve for QOF this year – Does that make life easier in that this could mean less work? How much income is that for your practice? For the average practice, based on the non-weighted point value for 2025/26, this is just over £16,000. However, the increase in the global sum will […]

This functionality facilitates the automation of processing incoming pathology and radiology results. The rules created can assess the content of in-coming results against user-defined parameters to determine if it needs to be reviewed by a clinician or not, potentially saving your clinicians a great deal of admin processing time. These rules can support factors such […]

This ES is designed to foster greater working relationships between secondary and primary care, whereby a GP can seek pre-referral advice from a specialist. This may result in a referral not being required, however, where it is still required, it will ensure referrals are appropriately targeted and good quality. Runs from 1st April 2025 to […]