Data Quality Swine Flu

In the QOF audits version 15 rules, there are no provisions made for patients that have been given the Swine flu immunisations. This will cause all the flu areas in the audit to select patients with seasonal flu immunisations and also H1N1 immunisations.
This has been corrected in version 16 of the QOF rules and H1N1 immunisations will be excluded from the flu searches.

In the meantime, we have created a Data Quality audit that will pick up patients that were given an H1N1 immunisation but NO seasonal flu immunisation. This will be releases in version 15 of the Data Quality audits.

Testing on some practices have revealed that this audit can miss out some eligible patients and we have made some changes to the search to make it more accurate. We decided to release this one line of the H1N1 Data Quality audits now to aid practices with flu searches. The new line will be version 16008 and will import as part of an existing Data Quality audit or it could stand alone if you do not have any Data Quality audits imported. The audits can be found here:
http://www.inps4.co.uk/clinical-audits/downloads/