July 2026 – EMIS Newsletter
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A message from our team
Hello!
Happy Friday! Welcome to our July newsletter full of updates we’re releasing for our searches & tools to help support your practice. We’ve had a busy last month onboarding new customers and preparing to go live in new areas in August. We’ve attended another conference this month, it was great to speak with the attendees!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support.
Best wishes,
James (Customer Experience Manager)
Happy Friday! Welcome to our July newsletter full of updates we’re releasing for our searches & tools to help support your practice. We’ve had a busy last month onboarding new customers and preparing to go live in new areas in August. We’ve attended another conference this month, it was great to speak with the attendees!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support.
Best wishes,
James (Customer Experience Manager)
PCIT Updates
🏟️ “Vision to Action” Conference
Earlier this month, we attended the “Vision to Action” conference, hosted by the West Sussex Practice Managers Association (WSPMA) at the South of England Showground.
It was a great day of networking, sharing ideas and demonstrating how our solutions continue to support GP practices. Thank you to everyone who visited our stand—we really enjoyed meeting you all!
It was a great day of networking, sharing ideas and demonstrating how our solutions continue to support GP practices. Thank you to everyone who visited our stand—we really enjoyed meeting you all!
Resource Releases & Updates
💉 MMR/V Catch-Up Campaign
The 2026 National Vaccines and Immunisations Catch-Up Campaign focuses on the MMR/V vaccination and is targeting patients under 6 and those aged 6-12 who have not received a full course of MMR/V vaccination. Primary Care IT already has searches to support with childhood vaccination and catch-up vaccinations so practices should use 015 Childhood Vaccinations and then 015A to identify those with missing vaccinations for recall. At the moment the searches are split into under 5 and 5-17 however reports can be sorted by age or DOB to support with practice recall requirements.
Please note that the Childhood Vaccinations page of the OneTemplate NonPrescriber has the appropriate codes for both MMR and MMRV vaccines depending on the age of the patient.
Please note that the Childhood Vaccinations page of the OneTemplate NonPrescriber has the appropriate codes for both MMR and MMRV vaccines depending on the age of the patient.
🧑🏻⚕️ 025 PCN Contracts – Including IIF
This folder is being updated to v5.0 and now shows achievement and work to do for the 26/27 contract year. Folder 025B has a number of other changes to support with PCN work.
Cancer referral audits that were based on a fiscal year have been changed to a rolling 12 month audit to support practices using this year round for safety netting. Practices wishing to run a fiscal year audit can still do so by using a relative run date of 1st April.
Cancer screening searches have been removed from 025 to avoid confusion as they are already available in folder 028.
SMR searches have been updated to include Patients on antidepressants and Patients on the learning disability register.
Cancer referral audits that were based on a fiscal year have been changed to a rolling 12 month audit to support practices using this year round for safety netting. Practices wishing to run a fiscal year audit can still do so by using a relative run date of 1st April.
Cancer screening searches have been removed from 025 to avoid confusion as they are already available in folder 028.
SMR searches have been updated to include Patients on antidepressants and Patients on the learning disability register.
🔎 Autumn/Winter Seasonal Vaccinations & RSV Vaccinations
The Seasonal Vaccination searches for flu and COVID are in the process of being updated for the autumn/winter season and these searches will be deployed to practices prior to the start of the programme on 1st September. Please note that there is no need to request these searches, they will be deployed to all customers. Other Seasonal Vaccination resources will also be updated and further information about those resources will be in the August and September newsletters.
Top Tip – We are aware that some customers are looking for work to do to prepare for the flu season. Although the majority of patients become eligible for flu vaccination from October, pregnant patient are eligible for vaccination from 1st September. This cohort can be harder to correctly identify so we recommend review the practice register of patients whose coding indicates a current pregnancy to ensure that patients who are no longer pregnant have appropriate coding adding to indicate a pregnancy outcome. This helps to ensure appropriate patients can be invited as early as possible and also to avoid any distressing messages to patients who are no longer pregnant. See folder 020D Registers – PA-213a) Currently pregnant for this.
The RSV Vaccination searches are in the process of being updated to reflect the new additional cohort in the amended specification from 1st September. This update will also be deployed to all customers.
Top Tip – We are aware that some customers are looking for work to do to prepare for the flu season. Although the majority of patients become eligible for flu vaccination from October, pregnant patient are eligible for vaccination from 1st September. This cohort can be harder to correctly identify so we recommend review the practice register of patients whose coding indicates a current pregnancy to ensure that patients who are no longer pregnant have appropriate coding adding to indicate a pregnancy outcome. This helps to ensure appropriate patients can be invited as early as possible and also to avoid any distressing messages to patients who are no longer pregnant. See folder 020D Registers – PA-213a) Currently pregnant for this.
The RSV Vaccination searches are in the process of being updated to reflect the new additional cohort in the amended specification from 1st September. This update will also be deployed to all customers.
🩺 028 Screening Programmes – Bowel Screening
The bowel screening searches are being updated to reflect the expansion to age 50 as this has now been rolled out nationally. Targeting searches have been added for the lower age cohorts to support any areas still seeing a phased rollout or practices who wish to encourage uptake among patients who may not be aware of the change. In addition, targeting searches for patients who have not responded to screening invitations now include patients on the LD register, those with autism but no recorded LD and patients on the mental health register.
🎬 Updated QOF Tools Webinar (summary)
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our “Updated QOF Tools” webinar recently. It was great to have so many people in attendance! This webinar showcased the latest updates to our QOF tools in EMIS Web and how practices can use them to support QOF achievement throughout the year.
You can find the recording here.
You can find the recording here.
📊 New OneAnalytics Platform
Towards the end of 2025 we have launched our updated OneAnalytics portal! What’s new: A modern user interface with improved performance and usability, stronger Security though Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Local access management for faster updates and improved control.
This has since been updated to reflect QOF/IIF progress for 2026/27.
For further details and support on using the platform, please see our Knowledge Base.
This has since been updated to reflect QOF/IIF progress for 2026/27.
For further details and support on using the platform, please see our Knowledge Base.
🔍 July Search Rollout
Over July we’re rolling out changes to some of our folders, those folders are as follows:
🔵 001 CQRS
🔵 025 PCN Contracts
🔵 028 Screening Programmes
🔵 001 CQRS
🔵 025 PCN Contracts
🔵 028 Screening Programmes
FAQs, Training & more
Wanting to use our searches?
We have a full suite of searches available for practice use. You can find your current searches readily installed in your system by going to Population Reporting & opening the “! Primary Care IT” folder.
It’s important to note we go into practice systems and update these as frequently as possible. For further information on our searches, click here. See our guide to know the latest changes to our searches here.
Queries about CQC Navigator?
CQC inspection teams use a set of searches which have been designed to help them to understand how a Practice manages their patient population, and to identify clinical situations which should not be happening. To support with this, Primary Care IT has adapted these searches to help practices understand what might need to be addressed before a CQC inspector finds it.
We recommend checking our CQC Navigator FAQ guide here. If you have any questions after reading the article, please raise a ticket with us for support.
How do I raise a support ticket?
If you ever need to contact us for support, the best way to reach us is by creating a support ticket, you can do this here. These tickets are triaged internally and passed to the relevant member of our team to ensure your request or question is answered to the best of our ability. You can always chase the progress of your support tickets by calling our office (0333 344 3678) and providing your ticket reference number.
We have a full suite of searches available for practice use. You can find your current searches readily installed in your system by going to Population Reporting & opening the “! Primary Care IT” folder.
It’s important to note we go into practice systems and update these as frequently as possible. For further information on our searches, click here. See our guide to know the latest changes to our searches here.
Queries about CQC Navigator?
CQC inspection teams use a set of searches which have been designed to help them to understand how a Practice manages their patient population, and to identify clinical situations which should not be happening. To support with this, Primary Care IT has adapted these searches to help practices understand what might need to be addressed before a CQC inspector finds it.
We recommend checking our CQC Navigator FAQ guide here. If you have any questions after reading the article, please raise a ticket with us for support.
How do I raise a support ticket?
If you ever need to contact us for support, the best way to reach us is by creating a support ticket, you can do this here. These tickets are triaged internally and passed to the relevant member of our team to ensure your request or question is answered to the best of our ability. You can always chase the progress of your support tickets by calling our office (0333 344 3678) and providing your ticket reference number.