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Changes to GP Contact 2025/26
As always at this time of year, the devil is in the detail and the detail is yet to be released (guidance/business rules, etc). However, below is a summary of top level changes:... more
13 Mar 2025QOF Medication PCA’s
There is still some confusion around PCA’s for medication indicators 2024/25, hope this summary helps - AF008: DOAC in first-line. If on Warfarin need a DOAC PCA... more
1 Mar 2025QOF - Maximal Tolerated Exception Codes
Q: What are the rules for adding maximum tolerated codes? The decision to add a maximal tolerated exception code always sits with a clinician and would be decided on a patient by patient basis.... more
21 Feb 2025QOF Priorities & Actions
Are you struggling to prioritise outstanding QOF workload to achieve maximum points? Do you know how many patients you need to achieve each indicator?... more
18 Feb 2025Issues affecting Diabetes QOF alerts in EMIS Web
(Posted directly from Emis Web email) Emis is aware some users are experiencing an issue with QOF alerts in EMIS Web which is causing some patients who are not diabetic to be incorrectly flagged as h... more
4 Feb 2025Coding 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
2 Feb 2025Case Study - QOF Prevalence Health Check with Follow-Up
Many patients identified do not need to be reviewed by a clinician, they most likely already have been, however, due to lack of availability within practice teams, our non-clini... more
9 Jan 2025QOF 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 2024QOF Prevalence 2023/24
The latest prevalence rates have recently been published. In the main, prevalence rates have increased across the board, however, PAD, CHD, mental health and new diagnoses of depression saw a slight... more
9 Oct 2024QOF Prevalence
We cannot stress how important it is, especially this year, protecting some indicators does mean your QOF achievement is likely to be fairly static this year b... more
9 Sep 2024