004 Contract Pro Searches
Overview
We have created some helpful searches and reports to make
achieving QOF indicators more efficient for you and your practice. This set of
searches cover QOF, including QOF VI (vaccinations and immunisations). The
searches are located within Primary Care IT – Reporting Group > 004 GP
Contract Pro folder.
This folder contains 15 sub folders split into 4 different categories which you is reflected
within the naming of the sub folder.
The 4 categories are as follows:
004A QOF Reporting
- These searches replicate the GP Contract – QOF searches and have been
split to report on Rolling data (results as of the day you run the searches)
and End of year data (results as of the end of the current financial year)
What would you use these searches for?
The main reason for these searches is so, you can run these
searches when you want to. We would suggest that you only run the specific
search or search folder that you require/are working on at the current time.
004B Routine QOF Work – These searches are divided
into 10 sub folders ( see screen shot below) It offers a full range of
searches to help practices break down QOF workload and organise it in a
productive and efficient way.
Throughout this article PCA is mentioned,
this stands for Personalised Care Adjustment and with regards to QOF, has
replaced the term ‘exception reporting’. A PCA is when a patient is not
included in a QOF target because they have declined a review/drug or a
review/drug is not indicated, etc. By coding a PCA, it will reduce the number
of patients eligible for the QOF target (decreasing the denominator), making it
easier to meet the QOF target. For more information about PCAs see our
separate support article.
004C QOF VI – These searches consist of 4 indicators
to track timely uptake of certain vaccinations. Along side these indicators
PCIT have created Missed activity searches, each search looks at
patients who are excluded from the main indicator.
004E Retired QOF Indicators – These searches are
split into two sub folders for retired Indicators Rolling and End of year.
Even though the indicators have been retired its still best
practice to do the work and in most cases many of the indicators are still in
the NICE guidance and practices will still want to continue reviewing theses
patients.
Benefits
Working through our GP contract pro searches and reports can help to:
- Maximise QOF points in a simplified way; these resources have been created to help users maximise their QOF points. However, we have taken into account this is often a lot of work, therefore, we have streamlined the process to make it as efficient as possible to achieve these indicators.
- Ensure targets and patient care needs are met; the searches and reports are aimed to help you accurately achieve the indicators, whilst also helping practices deliver the care patients need.
- Save time and effort; the searches and reports are created in a way to provide users with as much relevant information as possible to save looking through individual patient records. The support articles and other training materials will support the user to work through them as efficiently as possible. There is also no need to spend time creating your own searches or reports to support these QOF indicators.
Training
The PCIT Academy can be accessed via our website.
Training courses for our products can be found within the PCIT Academy.
Click this link to access the courses for the GP Contract Pro product.
You will need to be an existing customer to access these courses.
Resources
Below are the population reporting (search) folders which you will find in your practice (if you are a subscriber to this product) under the GP Contract Pro heading search folder. Click the links below to go to the support articles which will help you understand and work through these searches and reports.
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