The Ardens NHS Health Checks invitation searches have been designed to help practices identify which eligible patients need to be invited for their NHS Health Check.
To locate the searches, navigate to the Population Reporting module > Ardens Searches > 5.36 Contracts - NHS Health Check > Invitation Searches folder:
1a. Send invite >> Send 1st Invite
Based on those patients that are eligible for the health check, the Send 1st invite folder will show patients that are due a 1st invitation and have not had an invite in the last 5 years. The folder is further broken down by priority groups based on elements of QRISK present in the patients record e.g. a patient with high BP, family history of CVD and a smoker, will fall into a higher priority group than a patient who is just a smoker. These searches enable practices to prioritise patients to invite, should they wish to.
Alternatively, if stratification is not needed the All - 5y interval search folder will identify all patients eligible for a 1st invitation irrelevant of which priority group they fall into - please note, patients appearing in this folder will also appear in the relevant Priority Group folder.
The Milestone birthdays folder allows you to invite patients who are aged 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70 on the search date if you wish to invite in this manner.
The priority group risk factors are:
- Latest BMI >=30
- Latest BP >=140/90 or135/85 (if taken at home)
- Latest Total/HDL Cholesterol ratio >=5
- Latest QRisk 2/3 >=10%
- Family history of cardiovascular disease
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Severe Mental Illness
- SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Migraines
- Smoker
- Ethnic minority code
- Patient registered in a deprived area
For each eligible group there is a further break down by communication method.
1. Send 1st Invitation: SMS - if the patient has a mobile phone number on their record and has not declined contact by SMS.
2. Send 1st Invitation: Email - if they do not have a mobile phone details (or have declined contact by SMS), but do have an email address and consent for emailing.
3. Send 1st Invitation: Post - if they have neither of the above, they will display in this list.
4. All of the above - combines SMS, email and post and provides practices with one list.
The Send 2nd invite and Send 3rd invite folders are not broken down by priority groups, but they will identify all patients due a 2nd or 3rd invitation. These patients have had a 1st or 2nd invitation sent more than or equal to 28 days ago but have not been coded with a NHS Health Check completion code, indicating the patient has not yet had their health check.
1b. Consider invite
The searches in this folder capture patients coded as EOL, or on the LD, SMI or Dementia register. Patients with these conditions are still eligible for an NHS Health Check but some practices may choose not to invite them. Separating these patients from the main invite searches enables this. Other practices may wish to invite these patients slightly differently and for example may wish to invite some conditions but not others. The reports under the searches show the patient conditions, and you can export as a CSV file into Excel to sort and filter as needed.
1c. Consider visit > Housebound/Care Home
This folder contains very similar searches to the 1b. folder, but for Care Home patients, or those who are Housebound.
The zDenominators/Subreports folder provides searches that give you breakdowns of eligible patients. These can be useful to understand why a patient is appearing in a particular eligible search. Please note patients on a statin are not eligible, however the medication needs to have been issued in the last 6 months.
For NHS Health Check search folders not mentioned here, please refer to the 5.36 NHS Health Checks support article.
Further learning - why not access Ardens Academy and enrol on the NHS Health Check module to expand your knowledge? If you are not already signed up to Ardens Academy, you can do so here.
If you require any further assistance on the process above, please contact Ardens support on: