Primary Care IT News

Are you struggling with your vaccine indicators for QOF? Have you seen our webinar and support article about our monitor tools that can help you to achieve your targets?

If you haven’t yet, you can watch the webinar here.

Support article: Click here.

Today we’ve launched our FREE Info hub! NHS.net login needed, this gives you access to a useful library of:
– health resources and support
– awareness days
– practice policies

For Health Resources and Support
See information about:
– Patient support information
– Charities who support conditions
– Posters
– Videos
– Guidelines

Awareness days
See all of the national awareness days for health and plan your social media or other calendars around them. Add them to your own calendar to remind yourself directly from the website, or share directly to your own social media feeds

Practice resources
Download ready to adopt practice protocols for use in your own surgery.

All on www.primarycareit.co.uk

Have you seen the Safety Advisory Notice alert from EMIS about missing BP entries?  What do you need to know?  If you have edited a consultation where BP entries exist, this alert highlights that these values may have been removed.  Given that many practices will be going through and tidying data for year end, there is a significant risk that you may have lost BP values.  PCIT have created a search as part of our suite of MHRA, NPSA and CAS alerts searches (now updated to v3 to reflect this alert) which will highlight your affected patients.  You can download these from your Enterprise unit if you have EMIS Search and Report in your area, or from the PCIT hub in the searches section.  If you are not familiar with these searches, you can read our support article here: https://support.primarycareit.co.uk/portal/en-gb/kb/articles/mhra-searches  The original SAN notice is available on EMIS Now at: https://www.emisnow.com/csm?sys_id=725e45961b294dd45b0bec69b04bcb22&view=sp&id=publication&table=sn_publications_publication_contact_m2m

If you missed our webinar earlier you can catch it again on this link: https://vimeo.com/671154147 Save over £22,000, 384 hours of clinician time and get everything you need to complete this contract year and enhance income with many handy tips!

Primary Care IT are proud to announce that we have been selected as the provider for the EMIS National User Group EduNUG tools.  We will be supporting NUG members with a range of educational resources.  

This includes:

• Regular training webinars
• Monthly ask the geek sessions
• Video explainers and guides on the NUG website
• Training sessions at the NUG conference
• Magazine articles in the quarterly NUG newsletter.

In order to best understand users needs we are undertaking a training needs analysis – please complete this here so we can tailor sessions and topics to your needs.  

If you would like to submit a question for the next “Ask the geeks” session – you can submit this here.

Today we’re launching our monitor tools. These are standalone programs that allow you to pull data from your clinical system and then analyse it to see exactly what you need to do for your patients and by when. The first two tools are for childhood vaccinations and COVID boosters for immunosuppresssed patients. The COVID boosters…

We’re sure you’ve seen the recent updated guidance from JCVI on vaccinations for 12-17 year olds The following cohorts should now be offered a booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech no sooner than 3 months after completion of their primary course: children and young people aged 16-17 years children and young people aged 12-15 who are in a clinical…

In light of the change in contract regulations highlighted in letter C1475 about temporary GP contract changes and the guidance produced by the BMA and RCGP we have today released a suite of searches to help you identify patients whose care may need prioritising between now and April 2021. For QOF related searches to help you achieve the…

PCIT QOF and IIF support and resources

We’re sure you’ve seen the recent letter from NHS England outlining changes to QOF and IIF for this year.  PCIT have made some resources to help you easily achieve your QOF points for those targets remaining, make sure you don’t miss out on income for next QOF year and also look at prioritising care for patients over the rest of this year.  We’ve written a series of searches and also updated OneAnalytics to take account of the changes.  Our handy guide will walk you through the changes, what you need to do and how the resources we’ve created can be used. https://support.primarycareit.co.uk/portal/en-gb/kb/articles/qoo#PCIT_Resources

Have you looked at your QOF Vaccinations performance yet?  There are known significant issues with historical coding in this area.  PCIT have produced video explainers, support guides and searches to help you ensure all your codes are being picked up for payment.  Access these resources here.