Primary Care IT News

Introducing our updated Shingles and Pneumonia searches!

These resources are a game-changer for healthcare providers. Find the updated searches in 001 CQRS and 020 Practice Administration.

Key Features:

• Complex Cohort Identification: Accurately identifies eligible patients for shingles and pneumonia vaccinations
• Data Quality Checks: Supporting searches to address data quality issues
• Performance Assessment: Evaluate practice performance against the eligible population
• Time and Accuracy Savings: Ready-to-use resources that save hours of work and ensure accuracy

These searches are available now via Enterprise Search & Report! We’re currently importing these into practice systems so please raise a support ticket for priority install.

For further details, please see our support guides:

Shingles Vaccination: Read here

Pneumococcal Vaccination: Read here

CQRS Searches: Read here

Introducing the “New asthmatic needs variability/reversibility testing” tool (HP183)!

Designed to enhance accurate asthma diagnosis and streamline record management for healthcare providers!

Key Features:

• Accurate diagnosis verification: Checks patient records to ensure accurate asthma diagnosis
• Prompt for necessary testing: Alerts healthcare providers if variability/reversibility testing is required for accurate diagnosis
• Data integrity enhancement: Prevents incorrect data entry and ensures record management efficiency

For further information, please read the support article.

We will be rolling this out to all subscribers over the coming weeks. If you are waiting for installation and want us to prioritise your site please submit a ticket here.

Introducing the Auto Offering of Pulmonary Rehabilitation tool (HP187)!

This innovative tool seamlessly integrated within EMIS Web systems ensures that patients are offered pulmonary rehabilitation, helping healthcare providers achieve the COPD008 QOF target and generate income for the practice. 

Key features:

• Automatic MRC score evaluation: The tool checks MRC scores to determine the need for referral or offering of pulmonary rehabilitation
• Point-of-care prompts: Clinicians are prompted to take appropriate action during patient review, ensuring timely referral or offer of pulmonary rehabilitation
• User-friendly interface: Familiar and easy to use within existing EHR systems for seamless integration

We will be rolling this out to all subscribers over the coming weeks. If you are waiting for installation and want us to prioritise your site please submit a ticket here.

For further information, please read the support article.

Primary Care IT are excited to announce the release of the latest version of their Seasonal Influenza 2023/24 searches.

This collection of searches has been designed to support Practices running a call/recall programme for their seasonal influenza campaign. Built in line with the Enhanced Service criteria, searches are grouped by eligibility cohorts to assist in prioritising groups of patients to invite, and then to monitor uptake across each of the cohorts. A data quality folder offers searches to highlight missed or incorrect coding to ensure that all activity will be funded following the monthly CQRS extracts.

The searches are now available in your sites. The latest version is 016 Seasonal Influenza 2023-24 (v4) under Population Reporting.

For further information, please read the support guide.

Introducing the Childhood Immunisation Schedule alert (HP217)! 

With this innovative tool seamlessly embedded within EMIS, practices can easily monitor and manage the immunisation status of children and ensure that children receive timely and essential vaccines, promoting their overall health and well-being. 

Key Features:

• Real-time vaccination status: Instantly view which vaccines are up to date and which are overdue
• Target-based framework support: Helps practices achieve QOF targets for routine child immunisation
• User-friendly interface: Effortlessly access and track vaccination status within the EHR

For further details, please read the support article.

We will be rolling this out to all subscribers over the coming weeks. If you are waiting for installation and want us to prioritise your site, please submit a ticket.

To support our subscribers in processing action points from this National Patient Safety Alert related to GLP1–RA shortages, Primary Care IT is pleased to share a cluster of searches that should help you to identify patients recommended for clinical review by the Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS). 

These searches pick out patients who may need a more detailed review or conversation with a view to stopping their therapy or changing overall strategy, in line with the shared decision-making recommended by the NPSA and PCDS.

We are currently installing these searches into your sites. These searches are found in folder 012. Audit Ready v3.1, in the Diabetes subfolder. Practices or their pharmacy teams can run all searches in the folder at the same time, or just run the audit report RWA-216-AUDIT) On GLP-1 RA – CONSIDER REVIEW to get an interactive overview of the patients suggested for review.

For further details, please read the support article.

We are pleased to announce the release of our “Ethnicity declined or not stated (HP210)” patient alert. This protocol alert flags to users if the patient they have loaded has an invalid code for their most recent ethnicity as defined by PCN DES, missing an ethnicity code or declined to state an ethnicity.

This is an optional Handy Protocol and can be requested by submitting a support ticket here.

For further details please read the support article.

Previous versions of our searches covering QOF and the PCN DES were in folder 004 with IIF being in folder 025. As we have grown our resources for both QOF and the PCN DES we have decided to separate out these resources into:

• 004 GP Contract – which will have everything relevant to the GP contract, including the GP contract searches, GP Contract Pro, QOF VI searches and the VI Monitor tools
• 025 PCN Contracts – this has everything needed for the PCN DES, including IIF reporting, data quality and work to do as well as searches for the wider PCN DES such as cancer, CVD diagnosis, health inequalities and SMR
  

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce the publication of our latest blog post highlighting the activities and benefits of our Primary Care IT toolset for the contract year. Discover how our toolset has transformed patient care, driven income for practices/PCNs, and achieved savings for the NHS. Read it here.

Primary Care IT have updated our Weight ES tools for the 2023 specification!

These include updated searches (017) with the new referral codes, and a refaced patient alert (HP202) which will inform the clinician if the patient has been referred, checks if they have an up-to-date BMI and contains a helpful coding template with all the codes you’ll need. The alert also contains information for patient’s of BAME ethnicity.

The searches have been updated on all our subscriber’s sites, and can be found in folder 017. Weight ES (v3).

The Handy Protocol alert (HP202) will be installed for those that request it. If your practice has signed up for this ES, make sure to submit a ticket and ask for for installation!