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  

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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 […]

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 been a big push around apprenticeships and these are, once again, set to grow with so many younger people not wishing to […]

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said doctors should report all suspected inaccuracies caused by AI to the regulator’s yellow card scheme, which is used to monitor adverse incidents and safety concerns over medicines and medical devices. As with all AI-enabled tools, there is a “risk of hallucination”  where the tool produces information […]

NHS England have released a new assessment tool for modern general practice  – a diagnostic tool developed and tested with 540 practices across the country. It supports practices to review their care navigation and clinical triage process, and digital workflow, to identify what is working well and to identify and prioritise areas for improvement. The comprehensive guide supports […]

NHS England has confirmed a rise in the global sum for GP practices in England, increasing payments from £121.79 to £123.34 per weighted patient. The uplift is designed to implement the 4% pay increase recommended by the DDRB for GP Partners, salaried GPs and practice staff. The funding will be backdated to 1st April 2025 […]

From September, NHS Cervical Screening Programme will send negative results via the NHS App. This NHS message will also appear as NHS App notification. If the NHS App message isn’t read within 72 hours, a letter will be sent as a failsafe. Abnormal result letters will continue to be sent by post. This change follows […]

For autumn 2025, COVID-19 vaccination will be offered to: adults aged 75 years and over residents in care homes for older adults individuals who are immunosuppressed aged 6 months and over This represents a change from the autumn 2024 programme, which also included adults aged 65 to 74 and all those aged 6 months and […]

There is still a lot of confusion around Personalised Care Adjustments (PCA’s) and Exceptions and when to use them.  PCA’s were introduced in April 2019, to differentiate  between adjusting care and removing a patient from a denominator. PCA’s are automatically applied following the use of appropriate invite codes.  Exception codes, both top level and single […]

This month we have seen a massive uptake of practice consultancy days and I completely understand why – practice managers have this need to keep every plate spinning, this super-being who is an expert in HR, IT, finance, business development, facilities, complaints, flu & COVID clinics to name but a few. The job has become […]