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Pertussis Catch-Up Campaign
Due to rising cases, catch-up campaign from September 2024 focusing on pregnant women.... more
28 Nov 2024Enhanced Services Process Review & Staff Training
Enhanced service claims via CQRS/GPES are much smoother than they used to be and many practices have got their validation process all sorted. However, due to staff turnover mainly, we have received ma... more
26 Nov 2024Care Home Beds - Network Contract DES
The number of beds will be based on Care Quality Commission (CQC) data on beds within services that are registered as care home services with nursing (CHN) and care home services without nursing (CHS)... more
19 Nov 2024Coding Training - back to basics ...
Turnover of staff and up-skilling existing staff have led to us receiving many requests for coding training over the last couple of months. Would your staff benefit from some expert coding training?... more
13 Nov 2024What do the recent CQC reports mean for you?
There has been a lot of noise around the Care Quality Commission including the key reports by Dr Penny Dash and Sir Mike Richards. Key concerns were identified about the Single Assessment Framework (S... more
5 Nov 2024Updated guidance on the use of NHSNoReply
The updated National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidance aims to reduce the number of SMS Sender IDs used across the NHS, to ensure the sender ID reflects the service the patient is using and reduce... more
5 Nov 2024Apprenticeships 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... more
2 Nov 2024QOF Heart Failure Register Codes
In the latest release of accepted QOF register codes, the NYHA (New York Heart Association) codes have been removed from the HF subset so are no longer recognised QOF codes. The codes no longer incl... more
1 Nov 20242nd shingles vaccine not picked by CQRS
A question we often get asked so one worth highlighting. This is an automated claim, however, the timing of the 2nd vaccine is 6-12 months following the first. The rule looks for 186 days between the... more
30 Oct 2024DSP Toolkit 2024-25
The DSP toolkit 2024/25 is now available for practices to update (V7). The key change is item 4.5.3 around multi-factor authentication. The deadline for completion is Monday 30th June 2025.... more
22 Oct 2024