National patient safety alert

National patient safety alert

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’...
Rybelsus (semaglutide) Changes In Formulation

Rybelsus (semaglutide) Changes In Formulation

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...
Hints & Tips

Hints & Tips

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...
Recall Systems

Recall Systems

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...
Document Management Workflow & Backlog

Document Management Workflow & Backlog

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...