The following support article will outline the available Ardens resources to support practices with the management of QOF.
Ardens Searches
The Ardens searches supports GP practices with increasing prevalence by identifying patients missing from the practice disease registers, keeps track of those time sensitive QOF indicators which need to be completed in a set time frame and streamlines the recalling of long-term condition patients for annual reviews to be completed in a timely manner. The searches to support QOF can be found below (click on the links to access further detailed information):
- Registration Anomalies – search to identify patients not fully registered, therefore not included in almost all searches payment extractions are based on.
- Ardens Case Finders searches – searches to increase prevalence, identifying patients who do not have a QOF diagnosis code, however they have something in their records that denotes perhaps they should.
- QOF Vaccination and Immunisation searches - QOF searches to identify missing coding requirements and help manage certain QOF indicators.
- QOF Misc Searches - searches to identify missing coding requirements and help manage certain QOF indicators
- Chronic Disease Risk Stratification searches - designed to help practices focus on chronic disease reviews for higher risk patients.
- Ardens Time Sensitive searches - suite of searches to help you monitor QOF indicators which have a time limitation for achievement.
- Ardens LTC Recall System - a month of birth recall system, designed to recall a patient for multiple conditions at once.
- Ardens Manager QOF Report – this report enables practices to upload QOF data to Ardens Manager to monitor achievement. For more information on Ardens Manager and details on how to sign up, please click here.
Ardens Chronic Disease Templates
The Ardens Chronic Disease templates will support GP practices in accurately coding QOF activity and adhering to the latest NICE guidance, as well as incorporating best practice information.
There is a chronic disease template for each QOF condition. Each template can be found by either searching for the name or selecting from within the relevant Ardens folder e.g Asthma template within the Respiratory folder, Diabetes within the Diabetic folder etc.
Each template contains a National Contracts page for capturing all QOF and other national contract requirements for the current financial year and Review pages to complete a full structured review and record NICE best practice data.
For patients that present with co-morbidities, the Ardens Multi-Morbidity templates have been designed to help manage patients with multiple conditions.
The Multi-Morbidity templates consist of two templates: one to support HCAs with initially capturing examination and findings for the patient and another tailored for the GP/Nurse to further capture other elements of the review.
The templates are smart working and will only display certain pages in the template if the patient has been coded with the particular condition.
For further information on the Ardens Chronic Disease template click here.
For further information on the Ardens Multi-Morbidity templates click here.
For instructions on how to locate the Ardens templates within your EMIS system click here.
Ardens Data Quality Alerts
Ardens constantly monitors all clinical data as it is typed in EMIS Web and will alert users of any incorrect coding errors and missing QOF requirements. This will ensure accurate QOF coding in real time as the user enters codes, therefore increasing your prevalence and maximising income.
For more detailed information on the Ardens Data Quality Alerts click here.
Other Areas for QOF 2023/24
Practices may wish to consider the following resources to support other areas of QOF for this financial year:
If you require any further assistance on the process above, please contact Ardens support on: