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Primary Care responsibilities - First Contact Providers (FCPs)
CQC have issued a mythbuster describing responsibilities when employing FCPs in a primary care setting. This includes paramedics, first contact physio’s, dieticians, podiatrists and occupational ther... more
2 Mar 2022QOF 2021/22 Step Down & Overview/Achievement Webinars
Do you have any staff new to QOF or taking or more QOF responsibility including coding? Our back to basics is the perfect start for your new staff, it will help them understand the concepts of QOF, t... more
5 Jan 2022ACC-02
ACC-02: Number of online consultation submissions received by the PCN on or after 1 January per 1000 registered patients.... more
26 Nov 2021How to record a COVID-19 exemption application clinical assessment outcome
1. Insert your smartcard, authenticate using identity agent, and select an appropriate role. 2. Navigate to the Spine Portal: https://portal.national.ncrs.nhs.uk/portal/... more
6 Oct 2021MCC Workflow Refresher Days
Have you had a high changeover of staff? Do you need to enhance your current process to include more letter types work flowed by your admin team? Is your workflow process breaking down in places?... more
5 Oct 2021VI003 - % of children who reached 5 yrs old in the preceding 12 mths, who have received a reinforcing dose of DTaP/IPV and at least 2 doses of MMR between the ages of 1 and 5 yrs.
We have seen a fair amount of practices with very low achievement figures in this indicator, especially EMIS Web sites. The issue is the DTaP/IPV vaccine has be coded as a booster; if the description... more
5 Oct 2021Hints & Tips/Best Practice
Communicating services to the general public Supporting General Practice in 2021/22... more
3 Mar 2021Investment & Impact Fund (IIF) PCN Achievement Toolkit
Consistent searches across your PCN (especially where you have different clinical systems) will ensure, at the end of the year when data is extracted via GPES, you do not have any nasty surprises!... more
1 Mar 2021COVID-19 Updates
Two new groups of patients should be considered for shielding - Adults with CKD stage 5, Adults with Downs syndrome... more
1 Nov 2020Hints & Tips - QOF, Cervical Screening & more..
Expanding the Primary Care workforce... Cervical Screening Administration Service... Recording Ethnicity Data.... QOF Prevalence Data 2019/20...... more
1 Sep 2020