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Carer’s Register
Is your register up-to-date? Carer’s underpin the NHS, carrying out a vital role in the community. In order to be able to support the role they take on, we need to know who they are. NHS England... more
19 Dec 2024Recall 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 a... more
12 Dec 2024Pertussis 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 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 2024Pre-Diabetes (NDH)
NDH has the 2nd highest increase in prevalence year on year - from 6.09% in 2021/22 to 8.17% - and this trend is set to continue. In March 2022 there were more than 2.7 million people with NDH... more
4 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 2024