by Laura | Feb 4, 2026 | General Practice
Beware of incorrectly coding a patient’s penicillin allergy as a penicillamine allergy. This error risks a patient with a known penicillin allergy being administered a penicillin-based antibiotic and having a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction. ‘Penicillin’...
by Laura | Feb 4, 2026 | General Practice
Rybelsus should always be taken once daily (1 tablet per day). Patients should be switched directly to the new equivalent strength: If dose escalation due, patients can be switched to the higher new strength. Patients should be informed about the change in...
by Laura | Jan 7, 2026 | General Practice
Coils – FP34D claims Our back-office coding team code lots of coils done outside of the practice. To ensure you are correctly claiming for all coils in-house, we recommend to practices you exclude DocMAN user in your claim searches or output user so you can...
by Laura | Jan 3, 2026 | General Practice
We’ve heard on the grapevine NHS England is lifting the financial cap for Advice & Guidance (A&G) activity, effective this year. This means practices will be fully funded for all A&G activity undertaken throughout 2025/26. The existing local payment...
by IanL | Jan 2, 2026 | General Practice
A robust recall system is a must – it ensures you meet your contractual obligation by extending invites to appropriate patients to manage long-term conditions and it also helps achieve targets, such as QOF, driving practice income. Recall systems can be very...
by IanL | Jan 1, 2026 | General Practice
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...