To support practices with the management of QOF, Ardens has produced additional QOF searches to identify missing coding requirements and to help manage certain QOF indicators.
To locate the searches, navigate to the Population Reporting module > 5.22 Contracts - QOF - Misc search folder.
Each folder contains reports that identify the reason the patients are failing these QOF indicators. To view detailed information within a report, select View Results on the ribbon. For those who wish to view the underlying searches used to generate the reports, these can be found within the More detail folder.
Action - AF - DOAC coding (AF008)
The reports in this folder will highlight patients who are failing the AF008 QOF indicator.
Action - BP high
This folder contains reports identifying patients with a QOF condition which requires their BP to fall within a specified range, however, their latest BP result for this financial year is outside that range. The reports will provide various details, including the latest BP value.
Action - BP High due to code list update
This data quality search will identify anyone who is now ‘out of range’ following update to national code clusters.
Action - BP not done
This folder reports on patients with a QOF condition that requires a BP to be recorded for this financial year, however this has not been done. The subsequent report is available to give a breakdown by conditions.
Action - Cervical screening
This folder contains reports to identify patients who may have had a smear or hysterectomy recorded, however the code is not a QOF acceptable code.
Action - Cholesterol - coding
This folder contains reports identifying patients failing the QOF CHOL indicators.
If re-recording a cholesterol code, the correct QOF codes are:
Non-HDL Cholesterol test result codes
LDL Cholesterol test result codes
Action - DM - HbA1c high
These reports identify patients on the diabetic register whose latest HbA1c is out of range for QOF.
Action - LTC review partially completed
The following reports have been made available to assist practices identify where annual reviews have been coded as done, however there is missing data for QOF.
Action - Public Health - 5yrly BP due
This folder identifies patients who are failing the BP002 QOF indicator and therefore have not had their BP recorded in the last 5 years. The folder is broken down by 2 sub folders, those wishing to invite 5yearly or those wishing to invite yearly.
Each folder contains reports displaying patients who need a first, second, or third invitation.
Info - Breakdown of QOF conditions by patient
This folder provides reports with a breakdown of patients by their QOF conditions. The first report identifies all patients, and the second identifies only those coded as living in a care home. Both reports will display patient information as well as the QOF registers they are on.
Info - QOF Exceptions last fiscal year.
The searches included in each of the QOF condition folders, identifies patients who in the last fiscal year, have had a manual exception code added to their records, as per the QOF business rules.
These include patients that have declined clinical intervention for their condition, intervention described in the indicator is clinically unsuitable for the patient or where the investigative service is unavailable.
Practices may wish to review these patients to consider if the exception code still applies for this fiscal year.
If you require any further assistance on the process above, please contact Ardens support on: [email protected]