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July 2025 insight-FUL – Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease annual review’ (394703002) will now put a patient on the COPD register – COPD finding and COPD Follow-up have also been added to the cluster. This came to light as some practices have reported an increase in their COPD register, in some cases, the increase is considerable. […]

At one of our recent PCA webinars, we had a few practices who said their ICB had told them their PCA’s where patients had not responded to invites were too high. In the past, there were many reports from practices who were told their ‘informed dissent’ coding was too high and, as a result of […]

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 […]

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said doctors should report all suspected inaccuracies caused by AI to the regulator’s yellow card scheme, which is used to monitor adverse incidents and safety concerns over medicines and medical devices. As with all AI-enabled tools, there is a “risk of hallucination”  where the tool produces information […]

NHS England have released a new assessment tool for modern general practice  – a diagnostic tool developed and tested with 540 practices across the country. It supports practices to review their care navigation and clinical triage process, and digital workflow, to identify what is working well and to identify and prioritise areas for improvement. The comprehensive guide supports […]

NHS England has confirmed a rise in the global sum for GP practices in England, increasing payments from £121.79 to £123.34 per weighted patient. The uplift is designed to implement the 4% pay increase recommended by the DDRB for GP Partners, salaried GPs and practice staff. The funding will be backdated to 1st April 2025 […]

From September, NHS Cervical Screening Programme will send negative results via the NHS App. This NHS message will also appear as NHS App notification. If the NHS App message isn’t read within 72 hours, a letter will be sent as a failsafe. Abnormal result letters will continue to be sent by post. This change follows […]

For autumn 2025, COVID-19 vaccination will be offered to: adults aged 75 years and over residents in care homes for older adults individuals who are immunosuppressed aged 6 months and over This represents a change from the autumn 2024 programme, which also included adults aged 65 to 74 and all those aged 6 months and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In support of the General Practice Annual Electronic Declaration (eDEC), SCW Geospatial, in collaboration with NHS England, provides the GP Catchment Hub. This platform enables GP practices to view and edit their catchment area data and will continue to support submissions for eDEC. A new version of the hub will be released in August 2025, bringing several […]

Reference: Paul Couldrey , DPO, PCIG Consulting Ltd For a while we have received threats from Army recruiters, with them quoting sharing agreements that don’t cover redaction to SAR etc, but that all ends today!  As of 29th July 2025, the law changed, as part of the very slow roll out of the Data (Use […]

Due to the recent measles outbreaks, GP practices are permitted to administer MMR vaccines to eligible staff who are registered with another practice, under Immediately Necessary Treatment (INT). This is a time limited arrangement from 1st August 2025 until 31st March 2026. Completing doses must be administered in accordance with the recommended intervals in the […]

From 1 September 2025, eligibility criteria now includes those who are severely immunosuppressed (SIS) and aged 18-49 years (previously only included SIS patients 50 years +). Patients should receive Shingrix® (2-dose schedule), the second dose administered 8 weeks to 6 months after the first dose. Eligible patients who do not receive the second dose within […]

For the 2025/26 GP campaign, which runs from 21st July 2025 to 31st March 2026, practices should invite unvaccinated individuals aged 16-24 for their HPV vaccine. This includes: all females born on or before 01/09/2009 – up to their 25th birthday males born from 1 September 2006 to 31 August 2009 (inclusive) Eligibility for boys […]