001 CQRS: RSV for pregnant women

001 CQRS: RSV for pregnant women

Notes
This article assumes the reader has access to CQRS, and can interpret the descriptions of payment indicators.
The RSV for pregnant women indicator is extracted automatically from your system approximately 10 days after the end of the monthly reporting period. The searches will return data for the claim month from the 25th of the month, until the 24th of the following month (eg: for activity performed in the month of April, use the searches between 25th April and 24th May). This is intended to provide sufficient time for Practices to check and update their data prior to extraction, and review activity once figures are available to declare on CQRS.
Info
The searches are built in a way which means it is not possible to review data in historic months. Practices may consider storing results for future reference.

Service Indicators

Indicator
Description
Lower age limit
Upper age limit
RSVP001
Monthly count of the number of registered patients from 28 weeks of pregnancy who have a record of receiving a dose of RSV carried out by the GP practice within the reporting period (i.e. last month)
10 years
Day before 55th birthday

PCIT authored reports


Payment Reports

Primary Care IT has built a set of searches to support the RSV for pregnant women extraction. The main searches closely mirror the business rules, and it is expected that these will forecast the volume of activity recognised for payment by the CQRS count.

Missed Activity

Additional "Missed Activity" searches are provided to highlight additional patients who have not already been counted by the CQRS counts. They are identified by the prefix RSVPx. Missed Activity searches are NOT built to return a specific service indicator but to capture likely activity based on vaccinations recorded during the month, grouped by a certain characteristic. In the case of RSV in pregnancy, this is grouped between those who have a recent code indicating pregnancy and those without. 

There are several reasons why a patient may appear in a "Missed Activity" report instead of a "Payment" report, and these all need to be considered.
  1. The vaccination was recorded without the GMS qualifier. The business rules require that vaccinations given under GMS should be recorded correctly. Failure to select GMS may lead to the vaccination not being recognised for payment. 
  2. The vaccination was recorded without a pregnancy code on the same date. The business rules require that a pregnancy code MUST be recorded on the same date as the earliest RSV vaccination in the claim month. This does not have to be a 'new' pregnancy, but it is nevertheless important to ensure that a code is added. 
  3. The patient has already received a dose in the past 6 monthsThe business rules exclude payment any expectant mother who has already received a dose in the 6 months prior to the claiming month.
  4. There are no recent pregnancy codes on the record. Patients with no pregnancy codes may not be pregnant. Carefully review the record to determine whether the patient is pregnant, or a vaccination has been given out of scope.
Idea
Missed activity data offers some opportunities for learning.   Hopefully most entries highlighted by the Missed Activity reports are due to coding which can easily be fixed. Whilst it isn't possible to 'fix' where a vaccination has been given to an ineligible patient, there is an opportunity for reflection and learning to ensure the same scenario is not repeated.
Notes
The business rules cannot determine the gestational period (or even whether a patient is pregnant) for when the vaccination was given, so patients vaccinated early will be recognised for payment.
Alert
The Missed Activity searches have been built around vaccinations, while the business rules allow for codes OR medication issues. Using vaccinations in SystmOne helps to offer a more precise vaccination history, but some patients may present with a mixed code and vaccination history especially if they were previously registered with a GP surgery using EMIS Web or Vision. 

Review the CQRS article for points to consider when using these searches.

The business rules and code cluster lists for enhanced services can be found on the NHS Digital website.

Warning
While the main searches have been built to closely mirror the business rules, there is a creative element to the Missed Activity searches. Where patients appear in the Missed Activity searches, don't discount that there are other factors which erroneously brought the patient into the search. PCIT is always happy to hear about problems, but is unable to assist with every query why a specific patient is/isn't included.
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