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Recent Email Communication:


12/03/24 - IMPORTANT - New Smart Templates 

29/02/24 - Prioritising Work for Financial Year End FAQ

06/02/24 - Ardens EMIS Updates - Feb 24 

01/02/24 - Automating Recall for Blood Tests

10/01/24 - New Features (Ardens EMIS)

09/01/24 - QOF, IIF and V+I Contract Updates & Changes


Ardens Searches:


Latest versions of the Ardens searches can be downloaded from the Ardens Portal.


18th March 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

5.22 Contracts - QOF - Misc

V3.5

Name changes – recently released update called ‘Personalised care adjustments’ renamed to CVD Prevention as this is the intended use of these.

5.35 Contracts - SMI Health Check

v33.0

Update - "no history of substance misuse" code added to the relevant searches

Error fix - Improved accuracy of search "SMI: PHC - Follow-up - 2b. BP - not receiving pharmacological intervention"

Additional tweaks - Refined the content of "work to do", folder "2. Extra health check components" - added searches cervical screening searches; removed redundant (duplicate) searches.; renamed some searches for clarity.

4.11 Conditions - Frailty, CH + EoL

V19.1

Name change - to clarify the use of the Frailty Identification searches


8th March 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

5.50 Contract Local (Generic)

 

V24.90

New – an additional folder of Minor Surgery reports has been added to reflect the changing coding, due to the retirement of codes from the Snomed Browser. These are in place ahead of time and additional comms will follow in due course.

 

 

4.14 Conditions - Cancer

 

 

V4.20

New – the national screening cohorts have been broken down to show the patients with e.g. LD, cancer diagnosis etc so that these populations can be appropriately managed.

5.22 QOF Misc 

 

V3.40

New – addition of exception coding reports for hypertension and cholesterol, to re-surface those patients who may become ‘invisible’ from a recall point of view to ensure appropriate clinical management if needed.

5.32 Network Contract DES 

 

V2.30

Error fix – the aggregate report beneath CAN-02 total referrals report was showing count of patients instead of referrals which was causing confusion for some Ardens Manager users when comparing data. This has been fixed.

3.23 Shingles Eligibility

 

V2.50

Update – fix to the invitation searches, which were not requiring a gap between invitations which meant a patient potentially have 2x invitation on the same day (low risk).


4th March 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

2.20 Prescribing Monitoring 

 

V2.50

Error fix - CVD-PP: Register - 30-84y+ QRISK2/3 >=10%/MH/HYP/DM + no CVD/statin/antiplatelet is now looking at greater than OR EQUAL TO 10%, to align with the Ardens Blood Test Due Analyser and clinical best practice.

 

 

 

5.32 Network Contract DES 

 

V2.20

Error fix - Improved Inequality DQ search that was over-reporting.


27th February 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

2.15Prescribing CAS Alerts

 

V3.50

A search and report have been written to help practices identify patients who may need review due to the recent supply shortage notification.


26th February 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

5.36 NHS Health Check 

 

V32.40

Update - search "NHS HC | Done: LD" was slightly under-including.

New - Added 2x new searches - NHS HC | Done: Depression; NHS HC | Done: Is a Carer.

New - Added 2x reports - NHS HC | All: Done - Elsewhere (by code); Report showing mandatory elements in 28d before NHS HC last quarter.

 

1.31 Administration – Registration 

 

V24.90

Improved - "allocated/informed of named GP" search to ensure patients that have left the practice and subsequently re-registered are identified as "to do".

Folders re-named for clarity, into new divisions.

 

4.12 Conditions - Diabetes

 

V19.40

Updated to exclude patients with a diagnosis of DM1 or EOL from NDPP eligibility searches.

3.10 Vaccination COVID

 

V13.00

New – these searches have been updated for Spring Booster 2024.

5.32 Network Contract DES 

 

V2.10

Update - CAN-02 - we have corrected an error in the date range for CAN-02 exceptions. This may mean that you have additional patients appearing in your denominator for this indicator, so we have provided an additional 'data quality' for patients previously excluded from CAN-02 denominator

New - CAN-02 - we have created activity reports to enable practices to count the relevant referrals as a % of the count of total referrals. This will help users to understand their projected activity for year end.

 

2.15 Prescribing - CAS alertsv3.50Update - A search and report have been written to help practices identify patients who may need review due to the recent supply shortage notification for salbutamol nebuliser solution.


15th February 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

5.32 Network Contract DES 

 

V1.91

Update – IIF > Work done > CAN-02 search updated to align more closely with the business rules. This has included removing the code ‘rectal haemorrhage', while although mentioned in the details it is not a code included in the refset codelist and therefore will not count. We have added a new data quality search to identify those patients who may have been excluded for this reason previously, as you may wish to re-code them with an alternative.

3.20 Vaccinations - Other

 

V25.40

Update – Childhood Immunisations ? Recall > Pre-school boosters > error fix for the pre-school booster recall searches (it was previously flagging too many people as eligible, based on incomplete prior vaccination history).

Important – Pneumococcal eligibility – we have temporarily retired this folder as there is a coding issue, whereby one of the most frequently used codes is not being recognised by searches. We have logged this with EMIS and will re-instate the suite once we have a work-around.

 


12th February 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

5.36 NHS Health Check 

 

V32.30

Fix – the reports for monthly activity were named the same as quarterly – this has been updated.

5.22 QOF Misc 

 

V3.30

New- Mental Health – we have added a new report to assist with MH021 which shows any missing elements of physical health checks

 

3.22 MMR Catch-up 

 

V2.10

New - We have added a catch-up folder for patients older than 25, up to the point where Green Book guidance takes effect (those born in 1990). We have added two folders to cover Green Book guidance for those born 1980-1989, and 1970-1979.

5.32 Network Contract DES 

 

V1.90

Background update - The list of Chronic Respiratory Disease codes has been updated to include extra codes, reflecting the central NHS update

 


2nd February 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

5.22 Contracts - QOF - Misc

V3.20

New - Added folder for patients failing indicator AF008 but on Warfarin to assist with the elements needed to achieve this indicator

 

Update - QOF Housekeeping: Heart Failure review this QOF year broken down into 3x searches to assist workload management and updated all codes to align with current QOF; Patients with a declined, contraindication or max tolerated therapy recorded will now be excluded from diabetes housekeeping search; Asthma housekeeping search for "no full review" has been updated to align with QOF on logic and ACT codes.


New - Several data quality searches and a report have been added to support the reviewing of Cholesterol indicators 1&2.

1.34 - Administration - Carers

V24.2

Update – fix to error in parent population of new occupational carers search.

5.00 - Contracts - QOF - Case Finders

V3.1

Update- osteoporosis register codes updated to reflect latest NHSE update; Dementia case finder updated to find more patients based on possible dementia coding

3.20 Vaccinations - Other

v25.3

Urgent - error fix to Childhood Immunisations > Recall > Pre-school booster as this was over-including patients in the previous version, v25.2.


29th January 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

3.20 Vaccinations - Other

V25.20

New – addition of folder within Child Imms section for recall for early MMR vaccinations (at 18m) for the London area.

1.34 Administration - Carers

V24.10

New – further to customer request, a new folder for ‘occupational carers’ has been added.

1.10 LTC Recalls

V9.10

Update – Recall for LD, where LD is the only condition, has been reinstated and a lower age limit of 14y imposed. While not needed for QOF, recall for these patients is needed for IIF.

2.20 Prescribing Monitoring 

V2.40

Update – minor tweaks to coding for retinopathy screening for patients on hydroxychloroquine; NSAID searches have been refined to ensure only patients with at least 3 issues in the last year are included.

4.14 Conditions - Learning Disability 

V2.10

Update - Health screening searches updated with an updated retinopathy screening codelist; Updated LD register as per NHSE latest code cluster update

3.22 MMR Catch-up Searches

 

V2.00

New – suite of searches to identify those eligible for MMR catch up under the 6y-25y national catch up. Note – as the recall is being done centrally, these are not call / recall searches but will indicate numbers of eligible patients.

5.32 Network Contract DES 

V1.80

Minor update – Inequalities – Autism register updated to reflect national AUT_COD code list.


19th January 2024


Search Folder

Version

Description

5.20 Contracts – QOF - Monitor

V19.60

Update – an update to some of the rules relating to BP to mirror recent EMIS alterations.

5.40 CQRS Searches

 

V4.20

Error – an error in the date of birth for the shingles reports, which meant the report was not correctly identifying vaccinated 80 year olds, has been corrected in this version.

5.33 NCD - Supporting ACC-08 Searches 

V1.30

Update – ‘Home Visit’ added to the report for ‘Booking time to appointment time <2w as this was being picked up by the search but not showing in the report.



Ardens Clinical Templates:


Please note the following updates will reflect instantly for Resource Publisher sites. For Template Manager sites you will be manually updated during your next Ardens install.


March 2024


Template Name

Change Type

Description

All Chronic Disease Templates

Updated

Chronic Disease templates are now saved in the 'Clinical Templates' folder. These templates are now smart versioned.

Suspected COPD

Suspected Dementia 

Suspected Epilepsy

Suspected Heart Failure

Suspected Stroke/TIA

Measles

Young Person’s Clinic

New Templates

New templates are available.

Future Planning Template

Updated

Removed eFI section, formatting updates of Frailty Diagnosis section.

Contraception Template

Updated

Update of wording for CSE on the Safeguarding page.

Childhood Immunisation Template

Updated

Updated in line with the new TB NICE update.

Asthma Review Template1

Updated

Minor tweaks.


January 2024


Template Name

Change Type

Description

Diabetes

New Templates

A suite of new Diabetes templates - Diabetes (SMART version), Diabetic Preconception Care, Suspected and New Diabetes, Hyperglycaemic Emergencies, Initiation of Injectables. 

Asthma

New Templates

Asthma NEW (SMART version), Suspected Asthma.

Structured Medication Review template

Updated

Improved to allow clinicians to complete a comprehensive medication review, with links to a number of polypharmacy medication review tools.

Emergency Scenarios template

New Template

To assist with the quick capture of data relating to scenarios such as cardiac and respiratory arrest, seizures and chest pain.

Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer template

New Template

Supports clinicians with classifying the risk of breast cancer and identifying patients requiring referral.

Hyperlipidaemia 

Updated

As per latest NICE guidance in December 2023.

Rhinitis 

Updated

As per latest CKS guidance on prescribing.

Postnatal mother examination 

Updated

As per latest NHSE guidance in December 2023.

Abnormal LFTs
Pulses and ABPI doppler template
Insomnia
Acne
Targeted Lung Health Check coding
Menopause and HRT
Iron deficiency anaemia
Food allergy and intolerance

Updated

Minor updates made.



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