Guideline Library
The Guidelines below are available to download and use in your Vision system. Most of the files are in self-extracting compressed zip format. Click on the guideline you want, then choose to open the file. Once the file has downloaded, you will be prompted to unzip it. The file will extract into ....... by default.
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| NHS Checks |
From 2009/10 the NHS is being asked to implement a uniform and universal vascular risk assessment and management programme called 'vascular checks' for people in England aged between 40 and 74, the proposals for which were set out in Putting Prevention First published on 1 April 2008. This has now been rebranded as a 'FREE NHS HEALTH CHECK' |
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| Affordable Warmth Programme | This is a guideline for the Affordable Warmth programme. This will tie in with the Affordable Warmth audit which identifies and targets vulnerable patients for the abovementioned programme. | Download Guideline |
| nGMS contract 2010 - 2011 |
We are promised that this QOF year there will be no significant Domain or Indicator changes but it is likely that there will be changes for additional Read Codes that have already been introduced in the Q1 2010 dictionary and further additions in Q3 2010 when it is released in October 2010. The guidelines have been re-authored to fix any errors or inaccuracies and to change the date ranges so the correct information is displayed and have been renamed to v17 awaiting the release of the v17 Business Rules. However it is now the second week in May and there is no sign of the rules so we have decided to release these guidelines to assist practices with their patient management for the new contract year. As soon as the Business Rules are published we will further amend the guidelines to include any changes and Read Codes. To make it easier to delete the guidelines we have added an ampersand at the beginning of each guideline in the suite, including the embedded ones, hence after the installation of this set if you wish to delete them all just type ‘&’ and then hit the delete key rapidly until each guideline has been deleted. |
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Here is a guideline for the Electronic Palliative Care Summary Scheme (ePCS) in Scotland. It standardises data entry and is structured so that the sections are the same as the Out of Hours summary extract. The Guideline is designed to be used instead of the existing Palliative Care screen. Please see here for supporting documentation. |
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| Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) |
Following requests from a number of practices INPS have written a small guideline that pulls together the leaflets and websites where you can find useful information about Swine Flu, Influenza A(H1N1). *** Amended to match the criteria required for Returns, saves to O:\Download\Audits\Pandemic. Please delete all previous versions. 21/10/2009 *** *** Further entries included for Scottish Flu extract requirements. This extracts to o:\download\Guidelines\SwineFlu4. Please delete all previous versions before importing. 25/08/2009 *** *** Now amended to include all codes required for the Scottish Flu extract. Also contains the DOH flu assessment tool. 14/07/2009 *** *** Amended with extra codes for Scotland 11/06/2009, saves to o:\download\Guidelines\SwineFlu2 *** The guideline will allow you to record the patient’s travel history, examination, swabs taken and a confirmed diagnosis. An audit will be released to accompany this guideline shortly. |
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| Immunisation and CHS for Greenwich PCT (updated 01/06/2009) | Written by INPS to match criteria from Greenwich PCT. Updated 01/06/2009 with extra lines and instuctions for CHIS bag. | Download Guideline |
| South East Wales Cardiac Network (20/11/2008) |
The South East Wales Cardiac Network (SEWCN) have, with some technical help from INPS, produced a referral guideline and print out report in order for practices to ensure that they have the correct data for each patient who is being referred. The User Guide available here contains instructions on the use of the guideline and the suggested Read Codes which have been used, these are in line with the Cardiac Disease National Service Framework for Wales published in September 2008. Further guidance can be found on the SEWCN website at http://www.sewcn.wales.nhs.uk |
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| Scottish DES (29/1/2007) | This is the Scottish DES guideline (Amended 29/01/07) to help enter data for CVD Risk patients, patients who are carers and those with learning disabilities. If you downloaded and imported this guideline after 7th April, there is no change and so no need for you to download again. The Clinical Audits for this guideline are available on here [link to Clinical Audits>Scottish Audits>Directed Enhanced Services –CVD Risk> in Clinical Audit Downloads] |
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| Mark Levy's Asthma Vision Guidelines (12/2/2003) | Mark Levy FRCGP was one of the six GPs who formed the General Practice Airways Group (GPIAG) in 1987; he is currently editor for the GPIAG. He has written this asthma guideline/template with two main aims:
The file contains an introductory document plus four guidelines as follows:
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| District Nurse Data Entry (23/05/2000) | Donated by Dr Mark Davies, Hebden Bridge Group Practice, Valley Medical Centre, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks. The district nursing staff were actively involved in compiling this guideline. | Download Guideline |
| Med3 (10/11/2000) | Generation of Med3 sick-notes | Download Guideline |
| New Registration (10/11/2000) | New Registration | Download Guideline |
| Health Visitor (10/11/2000) | Data Entry for attached HealthVisitor staff | Download Guideline |
| Locum (10/11/2000) | A simple data entry guideline to be used by infrequent or inexperienced Vision users. |