QOF Aspiration Payments
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...
Apprenticeships in General Practice
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...
QOF – How important is BP & Cholesterol this year?
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...
Document Management Workflow & Backlog
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...
Are you considering employing an apprentice?
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...
Changes for ICB’s
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...
QOF Income 2025/26
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....
SystmOne – Results Auto-Review Rules Engine
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,...
General Practice Requests for Advice & Guidance – **NEW Enhanced Service**
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...
Flu Immunisation Programme 2025/26
There has been one change to the advice for adult flu vaccines for 2025/26 recommended by JCVI as the adjuvanted influenza vaccine (aTIV) is now licensed from age 50 years and over. There are no changes to eligible cohorts. Vaccination should commence from...Free Monthly Hints & Tips
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