PCA’s – Patient Choice Pathway

PCA’s – Patient Choice Pathway

(following a shared decision-making conversation) We are often asked questions around the patient choice pathway. This PCA criteria requires a personal contact or discussion recorded in the patient record, noting the reason for the intervention being declined. This...
MMRV – VI002  Manual Adjustment for 2025/26

MMRV – VI002 Manual Adjustment for 2025/26

From 1st January 2026 eligible children are now offered a combined MMRV vaccine instead of MMR as part of the childhood routine 2-dose vaccination schedule.  For QOF VI002 , both MMR or MMRV counts towards achievement. However, it was not possible to reflect this...
Changes to the GMS Contract 2026/27

Changes to the GMS Contract 2026/27

The news is out and there is lots of speculation around the changes, as well as news the BMA’s GP Committee have voted to reject the changes.  So this is what we know so far but subject to change … Below we have summarised what we know but this is just top level...
Asthma Review (AST007)

Asthma Review (AST007)

We are receiving lots of queries around AST007, practices thinking they have achieved it, however, it is still outstanding. Ensure you have coded: Asthma review Written asthma care plan coded on the same day as the review Number of exacerbations coded up to 1 month...
CQRS – Retired QI Indicators

CQRS – Retired QI Indicators

Although the 6 manual QI indicators (QI013-QI019) have been retired for 2025/26 (and are therefore not subject to review), practices are still required to submit a response for each of the indicators on CQRS.  As many of the QI projects were based around best...