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Ardens Searches:


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


24th 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.

2.25 Prescribing - Other

 

V4.70

New - searches to identify patients who may be eligible for referral to the NHS pharmacy Contraception Service.

 

2.15Prescribing CAS Alerts

 

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.

7.10 Team + Usage Searches

 

V24.0

New - activity reports for Community Pharmacy Contraception Services and Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Service referral;
Update - Pharmacy First referral code added to identify activity using the new codes


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))

 

3.21 Childhood Immunisations 

 

V1.10

Update - Restructure of Child imms COVER Programme Uptake folder for clarity.

4.10 Conditions - Cardiovascular 

 

V19.30

New
- AAA screening reports added.
- Added new search 'Statin Primary Prevention in HIV + age >=40y' into CVD Primary Prevention folder.
- Additional searches added to 'QOF Achievement + PCA' searches to surface newly registered/diagnosed hypertensive patients.

Update
 - Updated codelist for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia to remove 'Pure hypercholesterolaemia' and created new data quality search; Refined care home codelist.


5th March 2025


Search Folder

Version

Description

 

5.22 QOF Misc 

 

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.

 

5.22 QOF Misc 

 

V4.40

New - searches to identify those patients in Care Homes who are on QOF registers.
Update - updates and tidying to QOF review elements missing.

 

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.

 

3.23 Vaccinations - Shingles

 

V1.60

Updated to remove some topical preparations from the immunosuppression list.
New - search to identify those patients who are within 3m of being out of eligible age


21st February 2025


Search Folder

Version

Description

 

3.10 COVID Spring Booster Searches

 

V1.00

New -  release of Spring Booster searches.

 

3.24 RSV Vaccination Searches

 

V1.90

Update - to suite to incorporate new codes.

 

2.25 Prescribing - Other

 

V4.60

Update - to fix pregnancy codelist and to replace erroneous EMIS code within PSD folder.

 

2.15Prescribing CAS Alerts

 

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.

 

4.14 Conditions - Cancer

 

V5.00

New - folder for MGUS searches.

 

1.10 Ardens LTC Recall System 

 

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.

 Note - this suite has also been tidied to be more user-friendly.


10th February 2025


Search Folder

Version

Description

 

5.31 Contracts - IIF 2024-25

 

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

 

5.00 Case Finders

 

V3.90

Update - all LD casefinders now remove patients coded as 'Learning disability excluded'.

 

5.40 CQRS 

 

V6.40

Update - New RSV code added to data quality searches.
 Update - 
Hep B data quality now take account of patients over the age of 12 months with appropriate hep b tests done.


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;
New - Added 'data quality' reports to assist recording of values beside codes.

 

5.36 NHS Health Checks

 

V33.30

Update - Added new data quality search and removed a code from some code lists.

5.30 Weight Management

 

V31.70

New - Added reports for consideration before referral: age >=80, dementia, LD, EoL and RA
 Restructured folder & added reports in line with current updates ('more detail' folder)

2.15Prescribing CAS Alerts

 

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.

2.22 Prescribing - Alerts

 

V2.00

Update - Refined pregnancy codelist.
Update - Adrenaline autoinjector searches looking for potential underdosing in relation to a child's weight have been updated in line with new licensed doses New - Addition of new 'yellow card biobank' folder containing searches to identify patients who may have had a serious ADR to allopurinol or a DOAC and may require a yellow card report.


24th January 2025


Search Folder

Version

Description

 

1.30 Administration - Misc

 

V24.90

Update – a coding anomaly in the pregnancy definition has been updated; A coding anomaly in the ‘medical report’ suite has been corrected.

 

2.15Prescribing CAS Alerts

 

V4.70

New—TriOn Pharma is recalling specific batches of Aactive D3 2000 iu/ml. We have written a search to support practices in identifying and reviewing patients who have been prescribed generic cholecalciferol 2000 units/ml in the last six months.

 

4.13 Conditions - Respiratory 

 

V19.20

Update – entire suite has been reviewed and updated in line with recent guidance updates. We have taken the opportunity to re-format all the reports for ease of use.

5.00 Case Finders

 

V3.80

Update – Asthma case finders updated in line with new guidance.

 

5.50 Contract Local (Generic)

 

V25.60

Update – coding anomaly which caused a minor surgery code to undercount has been fixed; minor coding anomaly in coil searches has been fixed.


19th January 2025


Search Folder

Version

Description

 

2.20 Prescribing Monitoring 

 

V3.30

Updates - Updated DOAC monitoring intervals based on new guidance; Added Data Quality searches to identify patients who simply need a re-calculation of CrCl or BMI with monitoring already done; Improved the height monitoring timeframe.


16th January 2025


Search Folder

Version

Description

 

5.35 Contracts - SMI Health Check

 

V33.30

Updated - 'blood glucose' and 'nutritional assessment decline' codelists to match technical requirements. 

New - added searches/reports to show the differences between the Ardens searches and national extraction. 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

 

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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