by IanL | May 8, 2025 | QOF
71 less points to achieve for QOF this year – Does that make life easier in that this could mean less work? How much income is that for your practice? For the average practice, based on the non-weighted point value for 2025/26, this is just over £16,000....
by IanL | May 2, 2025 | SystmOne
This functionality facilitates the automation of processing incoming pathology and radiology results. The rules created can assess the content of in-coming results against user-defined parameters to determine if it needs to be reviewed by a clinician or not,...
by IanL | May 1, 2025 | Enhanced Services
This ES is designed to foster greater working relationships between secondary and primary care, whereby a GP can seek pre-referral advice from a specialist. This may result in a referral not being required, however, where it is still required, it will ensure referrals...
by IanL | Apr 23, 2025 | General Practice
There has been one change to the advice for adult flu vaccines for 2025/26 recommended by JCVI as the adjuvanted influenza vaccine (aTIV) is now licensed from age 50 years and over. There are no changes to eligible cohorts. Vaccination should commence from...
by IanL | Apr 16, 2025 | Hints & Tips
Have you considered outsourcing any of your IT tasks? We work with many practices who need our services due to workforce shortages and skills gaps. How beneficial can this be to your business? Lower labour costs – you don’t pay employer NI, pension...
by IanL | Apr 16, 2025 | General Practice
An independent review, published by Professor Alice Sullivan, looking at data, statistics and research on sex and gender has identified a serious safeguarding risk in the current process of re-assigning gender and sex identity in medical records for children and young...
by IanL | Apr 8, 2025 | General Practice
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme is a government initiative aimed at supporting the decarbonisation of heating systems in buildings, including GP practices in England and Wales. Through this scheme, GP practices can receive grants to replace fossil fuel heating systems, such...
by IanL | Apr 3, 2025 | Enhanced Services
Do you have a robust, confident system for targeting & claiming enhanced services? Enhanced service claims via CQRS/GPES are much smoother than they used to be and many practices have got their validation process all sorted. However, due to staff turnover mainly,...
by IanL | Apr 2, 2025 | General Practice
Employment Law Changes, April 2025 (summary) Statutory sick pay will increase to £118.75 per week (from £116.75) Statutory maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental pay will increase to £187.18 per week (from £184.30) Statutory redundancy pay will increase...
by IanL | Apr 1, 2025 | Enhanced Services
Do you struggle to manage your monthly Enhanced Service Claims? Do you have a robust process for claims – DES/LES? Are you sure you are claiming for all services delivered? What is the financial impact of this? The financial impact of not claiming for all...