MMR Vaccinations for Practice Staff
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...
Shingles Vaccination Eligibility from 1st September 2025
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...
HPV Catch-Up Campaign
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...
Emis Web – QOF Updated to v50 rule sets
QOF Prevalence Health Check
Comparison August 2023 – August 2025 Have you ever compared your list size/register sizes from one QOF year to another and looked at what effect this could have on the practice, especially...
Legacy Smartcard
This month there are changes to the smartcards used for signing electronic prescriptions. All relevant computers and devices must have the software Oberthur middleware installed. Middleware is the communications link between applications on a computer and the...
Routine Childhood Vaccinations – changes from 1st July 2025
There are significant changes to the routine childhood vaccination schedule and to the selective hepatitis B (HepB) programme 1 July 2025 and 1 January 2026, including the introduction of a new routine vaccination appointment at 18 months. This is as a result of the...
GLP-1 Notifications
Judging by the number of private letters for patients commencing GLP-1 our coding team are getting currently, we imagine many of you are getting a bit bogged down by these. The process we recommend is our coding team will add a code for anti-obesity medication...
Inactivation of SNOMED Codes
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