And more good news … From 1st January 2026, the fee for completing a DVLA form has increased to £50 (from £40) and from 1st April 2026, will increase to £62.50. The fee increase is so the service is more in line with the work required to complete the form. The BMA are encouraging forms […]

Coils  – FP34D claims Our back-office coding team code lots of coils done outside of the practice.  To ensure you are correctly claiming for all coils in-house, we recommend to practices you exclude DocMAN user in your claim searches or output user so you can identify which ones have been performed in-house. LD removal code […]

This year, the accuracy of your registers (prevalence) determine your income for 82% of your QOF income – 18% is based on practice population.  It is essential you validate your registers; if prevalence is lower than it should be, the value of the points you achieve will be lower than the burden of disease on […]

We’ve heard on the grapevine NHS England is lifting the financial cap for Advice & Guidance (A&G) activity, effective this year. This means practices will be fully funded for all A&G activity undertaken throughout 2025/26. The existing local payment process will likely remain unchanged, and a financial reconciliation process will take place at the end […]

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 as QOF, driving practice income. Recall systems can be very admin-hungry – a streamlined, robust recall system will improve efficiency and quality of […]

Due to the number of issues we identify around safeguarding, we have added a number of safeguarding resources to the Insight Portal this month- Child protection register Vulnerable adult register Patients aged 18+ with active child protection codes & patients turning 18 next month with child protection code to be potentially coded as vulnerable adult […]

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 at info@insightsol.co.uk The government have launched an ambitious new Skills Policy […]

NHS App Survey NHS Digital would like to understand practice opinions on patients being able to give feedback on the messages they receive through the NHS App. https://feedback.digital.nhs.uk/jfe/form/SV_daIW7zC5E1NumzQ Annual Declaration The 2025 Annual Practice Self-Declaration (eDec) is open for practice submissions through the Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS). The deadline for submission is Friday 21 […]

The current formula for distributing primary care funding, known as the Carr-Hill formula is based on old data, some of which is 25 years old. This is the largest income stream for most practices. The review is expected to; Identify a new allocation formula Assess the impact and feasibility of implementing it while ensuring it […]

From 1 September 2025, patients aged 18+ who are severely immunosuppressed will qualify for the Shingles vaccination programme (previously 50 years +). Patients will be offered 2 doses of the non-live shingles vaccine, Shingrix, with the second dose given 8 weeks to 6 months after the first dose.  Severely immunosuppressed patients who have already received […]

In line with NHS England procedures, if a letter sent directly to a patient is returned to PCSE, or PCSE is notified by a screening administration service that a letter has been returned indicating the addressee is no longer at the address, PCSE is required to raise an FP69 flag on the PDS system. This […]

From September, this will be an auto CQRS extraction. To ensure practices qualify for payment in future automated extractions, it is essential that both the RSV vaccination and a pregnancy code are recorded on the same day in the patient record. This is unusual as you will have already coded the patient’s pregnancy, however, the extraction is not looking back for […]

Potentially fatal interaction between tramadol and warfarin due to thinning of the blood and brain bleeds. Although not noted in the BNF, the coroners office have asked for raised awareness of this potential fatal interaction: Coroner advises NHS England to warn prescribers about interaction of tramadol and warfarin  

How do they compare year-on-year and how does this affect your income?

July 2025 insight-FUL – Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease annual review’ (394703002) will now put a patient on the COPD register – COPD finding and COPD Follow-up have also been added to the cluster. This came to light as some practices have reported an increase in their COPD register, in some cases, the increase is considerable. […]

At one of our recent PCA webinars, we had a few practices who said their ICB had told them their PCA’s where patients had not responded to invites were too high. In the past, there were many reports from practices who were told their ‘informed dissent’ coding was too high and, as a result of […]