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Ardens Searches:
Latest versions of the Ardens searches can be downloaded from the Ardens Portal.
16th April 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
5.35 Contracts - SMI Health Check
| V33.50 | Update - dates updated as needed and redundant search (and folder) deleted. |
4.10 Conditions - Cardiovascular
| V19.40 | QOF update - QOF v50 changes made in the 'QOF achievement + PCA' folder |
| V5.20 | Update - Pancreatic Cancer Case Finder searches updated |
| V4.60 | QOF update - Dates updated to new QOF year in searches and reports; QOF Care Home Only 25-26 removed, to be updated when EMIS release their QOF library searches; 'BP high' folders deleted as no longer required due to business rule changes. |
| V4.00 | QOF update - domains no longer in QOF moved to separate folder but retained for good clinical practice |
| V3.20 | QOF Update - Moved Cancer, COPD and Depression folders to subfolder 'Retired' in line with QOF changes; Updated AST012 in line with 25/26 QOF changes. |
| V2.60 | Update - relevant dates updated for new QOF year. |
1.12 Chronic Disease Risk Stratification
| V2.20 | Update - care home code list updated to ensure consistency with other folders; Corrected an error in CVD-PP Priority ?Review statin search. |
| V1.30 | Updates - Exclude Actikerall 5mg/g/100mg/g cutaneous solution & Fluorouracil 0.5%/Salicylic acid 10% cutaneous solution from Immunosuppressed searches; Refined care home code list to align with other content; Removed 'skin graft failure' from eligibility search. |
4th April 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
| V5.10 | New - Pancreatic case-finder searches. |
24 March 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
3.10 COVID Spring Booster Searches
| V1.20 | Update - Refined immunosuppressant drug list to take out some erroneous topical preparations in response to customer feedback. |
| V4.70 | New - searches to identify patients who may be eligible for referral to the NHS pharmacy Contraception Service.
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| V5.00 | New - search for patients on Promixin 1million unit powder for nebuliser solution who may need to be referred to their respiratory specialist for an alternative. |
4.11 Conditions - Frailty, Care Homes and EOL
| V19.40 | Update - full suite reviewed and updated to new format of reports. |
| V24.0 | New - activity reports for Community Pharmacy Contraception Services and Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Service referral; |
17th March 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
1.20 Ardens Diary Recall System
| V16.0 | New - Added two data quality searches that find insertion of coil entries and no subsequent removal dates in the diary (in Dairy Recall, contraception folder (IUS and IUD)) |
| V1.10 | Update - Restructure of Child imms COVER Programme Uptake folder for clarity. |
4.10 Conditions - Cardiovascular
| V19.30 | New |
5th March 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
| V4.50 | Bugfix - BP high searches now only show patients failing QOF; Refined DOAC coding report; Updated the 'care home resident' codelist to correct some anomalies. |
26th February 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
3.10 COVID Spring Booster Searches
| V1.10 | Update - Moved 'solid organ transplant' patients from 'review before' to automatically eligible for recall. |
| V4.40 | New - searches to identify those patients in Care Homes who are on QOF registers. |
5.23 QOF Vaccination and Immunisation
| V2.20 | New - searches identifying those patients who will fall into next year's QOF denominator. As soon as we get to 1st April, it may be too late to vaccinate some of these patients so it is useful to look ahead. |
| V1.60 | Updated to remove some topical preparations from the immunosuppression list. |
21st February 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
3.10 COVID Spring Booster Searches
| V1.00 | New - release of Spring Booster searches. |
| V1.90 | Update - to suite to incorporate new codes. |
| V4.60 | Update - to fix pregnancy codelist and to replace erroneous EMIS code within PSD folder. |
| V4.90 | New search to identify patients who currently have freestyle libre 2 sensors on repeat who should be reviewed to change to freestyle libre 2 plus sensors due to discontinuation. |
| V5.00 | New - folder for MGUS searches. |
| V9.50 | Update - Various minor updates including - minor changes to LD codelist to align with QOF again, remove email column from SMS invite reports; updating mental Health codelist to align with QOF again. |
1.36 PPA Searches (Personally Administered Drug Claims)
| V24.70 | Update - Following an update from the Department of Health and Social Care, from 1 January 2025, GP practices will be able to order sub-dermal contraceptive implants (Nexplanon®) directly from the supplier and claim back the cost. A search to identify potential missing prescriptions and a report for claims have been written to help practices with this. |
10th February 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
| V1.40 | Error fix: Cancer - Lower GI - the code 'Anal mass - 1812681000000102' had been erroneously omitted as an exclusion code and has now been added. As a result, users may find that their achievement has increased on this indicator. |
7th February 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
| V3.90 | Update - all LD casefinders now remove patients coded as 'Learning disability excluded'. |
| V6.40 | Update - New RSV code added to data quality searches. |
1st February 2025
Search Folder | Version | Description |
5.35 Contracts - SMI Health Check
| V33.40 | Important update - Updated 'work done' searches to require a value where necessary; |
| V33.30 | Update - Added new data quality search and removed a code from some code lists. |
| V31.70 | New - Added reports for consideration before referral: age >=80, dementia, LD, EoL and RA |
| V4.80 | New search to support practices to identify and review patients currently prescribed Hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 100mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules due to supply shortage. |
| V2.00 | Update - Refined pregnancy codelist. |
Ardens Clinical Templates & Protocols:
Please note the following updates will reflect instantly for Resource Publisher sites.
January 2025
Template Name | Change Type |
Suspected Asthma – Child Asthma Review – Child PSA Counselling Glucose monitoring | New Templates
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Asthma Review – Adult NHS Health Check Chickenpox | Significant Updates |
Protocol Name | Change Type |
New breast cancer on oestrogen HRT | New Protocol – Alert to warn if patient is taking HRT when a breast cancer diagnosis added. |
New Meningioma and on Medroxyprogesterone | New Protocol – Alerts users if they add a new code for meningioma and the person is on high-dose medroxyprogesterone. |
Medroxyprogesterone Issue and Meningioma Hx | New Protocol – Alerts if prescribing medroxyprogesterone to a patient with a history of meningioma. |
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