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.

For instructions on how to download and install Guidelines please click here

 

Guideline Notes
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nGMS contract 2011 - 2012

The nGMS Quality Outcome Framework for 2011-12 is published with v21 of the Business Rules and INPS have rewritten the guidelines.


Because of considerable pressure from Users we have once more published QOF guidelines which contain Management tools AND Recall & Correspondence Management. The "QOF only" guideline has not been authored this time.

To run the files below you MUST be accessing the website from a LAN based Vision system or if you are on the managed service, from your Vision terminal services session, then click as instructed  below to start download, press Run when prompted and follow the on screen instructions.


QOF Quality Indicators and Management v21 Guidelines - this suite is similar in presentation to the v18 Guidelines where the QOF items are in green with the  monitoring, disease management and recall management in bright blue.

This self-extracting zip file will extract all the files required for the guideline into folder "o:\download\guidelines\gpcontract\v21.00" where the index name will be &&NCQIV21 and automatically import them into Vision and allow you to delete old entries - <click here>

** Updated 03/02/2012 **

Now saves the PHQ-9 as a TIF rather than BMP.  Those who have downloaded the previous v21 Guideline can use this patch to update their system without the need to re-install.


To populate the Read code triggers for the QOF Points and Management Guidelines <click here>.  This will automatically display the relevant QOF guidelines automatically in each patient record, either via passive triggering show in the alert screen, or by active triggering which will display a prompt screen.  To learn more, please read the download and install instructions.

 



Management Care Plans 2011 - 2012

 The Disease Management Care Plans will not only manage QOF, but also allow for annual review and day to day management of chronic diseases and administrative tasks. These guidelines are under development at the moment,  but as soon as each is available, it will be released below. The lines which are required for QOF are marked with an asterix as previously and we have added some additional web links, care pathways, calculators and intelligent documents which may be of use.

 A full index of all the Management Care Plans will be released when completed (Index Name ~MPINDEX)

Atrial Fibrillation - updated 01/07/2011
Asthma - updated 01/07/2011
Cancer & Palliative Care - added 20/07/2011
CHD inc. Angina and MI - added 01/07/2011
Child Health Surveillance - added 21/07/2011
Childhood Imms - added 01/07/2011
CKD - added 08/08/2011
COPD - updated 01/07/2011
Dementia
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Heart Failure
Hypertension & PP CVD Risk
Learning Disabilities
Maternity - added 01/07/2011
Mental Health
New Patient Health Check - updated 20/07/2011
New Patient Questionaire - updated 20/07/2011
Sexual Health & Cytology
Stroke & TIA
Ethnicity
Recall and Medication Review Management - updated 01/07/2011

OR

All of currently available listed above in one download - updated 08/08/2011

 

DES 2011 - 2012

The Clinical Directed Enhanced Services for ENGLAND have been published and the guidelines have been re-written to take account of the changes. Only three domains are eligible for DES 2011-12 – Alcohol, Learning Disabilities and Osteoporosis – the guideline can be downloaded here.  Clinical audits to accompany the guideline will be available shortly.  (The index name is DES_ENG112)

*** Scottish version updated 08/08/2011 ***
The Clinical Directed Enhanced Services for SCOTLAND 2011-12 for Osteoporosis guideline has been updated with dates for 2011-12 and some small code changes – the guideline can be downloaded here.  Clinical Audits to accompany the guideline will be available shortly.  (The index name is DES_SCO2)

 

NHS Health Check

This guideline is written to the Information Centre Draft Dataset for management and reporting of the Free NHS Checks for Vascular Disease. 

** Updated 14/03/2011 **

Minor bug fixes, and now includes the full User Guide.

** Updated 13/07/2011 **

Includes updated information about QRISK2, a new Goals and Outcomes report to match the NHS standard, and further minor bug fixes.

Further amendment on this date - udpate to report to show Blood Glucose results.  Amendment of text on report for BP.  Added button to record Cholesterol.

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NHS Grampian Guidelines V3

Here is Version 3 of the NHS Grampian Guideline Index. Please see here for supporting documentation.

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ePCS guideline for Scotland

** Updated 08/02/2011 **

Here is a guideline for the electronic Palliative Care Summary scheme (ePCS) in Scotland.  It standardises data entry and guides the user through the steps required to successfully record information for patients on the Palliative Care register and transmit records of consenting patients to OOH via the ECS extraction process.  Version 2 of the ePCS Guideline (EPCS2) contains a new section to facilitate the inclusion of relevant diagnoses and surgery.  This Guideline replaces any previous versions.

For a PowerPoint presentation on how to use this, click here.

User Guides can be found on this page.

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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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New Registration (10/11/2000)

New Registration

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Health Visitor (10/11/2000)

Data Entry for attached HealthVisitor staff

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Locum (10/11/2000)

A simple data entry guideline to be used by infrequent or inexperienced Vision users.

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