Primary Care IT: Leading the way in delivering patient outcomes, income for practices and savings for the NHS

Executive Summary:Primary Care IT has experienced a busy year as GP the world has moved out of COVID recovery and back to business as usual.  With the receipt of end-of-year contract reports, it is an opportune time to reflect on the activities and outcomes we have accomplished. This blog post highlights some key achievements of…

Free Polio Vaccination searches for EMIS Web and SystmOne

*Polio Vaccine resources for EMIS and SystmOne* Following the UK Health Security Agency’s announcement last week that children aged 9 and under living in London will be offered a booster polio vaccination, we have adjusted our poliovirus searches to support identification for recall. The FREE searches are available to download for EMIS here: www.primarycareit.co.uk/polio-vaccination-coverage-emis/ and for SystmOne here: www.primarycareit.co.uk/systmone-free-resources/.
Existing Primary Care IT customers will find the searches on their systems. The support articles can be found for EMIS here: support.primarycareit.co.uk/portal/en-gb/kb/articles/polio-vaccination-coverage-search and for SystmOne here: support.primarycareit.co.uk/portal/en-gb/kb/articles/polio-vaccination-coverage-search-s1

Info Hub

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

New Tools For Childhood Vaccines and COVID Boosters

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…

BMA Workload Prioritisation searches

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…

MHRA National Patient Safety Alert 14th July 2021 Inappropriate anticoagulation of patients with a mechanical heart valve

We have noted that searches produced by system suppliers require precise coding of the valve type in order to identify patients who may be at risk of inappropriate anticoagulation. Specific valve type coding may not be universal practice so some patients may remain vulnerable due to inappropriate anticoagulation. All resources in the PCIT hub.