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Practice Focus is a software tool designed to help practices and PCTs
meet national and local quality targets, and to improve data collection
from general practice.
Practice Focus has been designed using the experience of practicing
clinicians, practice managers and PCT management teams, working in
partnership with specialists in GP clinical systems. It provides
practices and PCT with performance information for chronic disease
management (CDM), including QOF indicators, enhanced services and
additional quality targets. Many of the function availablein Practice
Focus are not routinely available on clinical systems.
The fully encrypted export function manages the transport of sensitive
data from practice to PCT and other data collection agencies.
PCTs using Practice Focus across all their practices have an excellent
tool to gather information for public health purposes. QMS is committed
to developing additional modules in collaboration with PCTs, according
to their priorities. For example, in response to concerns re high rates
of exception reporting in a London PCT, we have produced a
comprehensive reporting module aimed at reducing inappropriate
recording of exception codes, whilst supporting practices in
verification and recording and evidence.
Currently compatible with all systems that meet RFA 99 accreditation
criteria, using 5 byte Read Codes or CTV3 codes. All the
statistical data from participating practices can be aggregated at the
PCT to provide a comprehesive database.
Installed across all practices in a PCT, Practice Focus provides a
toole to streamline data colelction according to PCT specific
requirements, for example:
- Statistical data for performance monitoring
- Anonymised data for research and public health
purposes
- Patient identifiable data to populate databases, for
example:
- Central retinal screening register.
- Direct upload of immunisation data to PCT database
- Health Check Programme
Example of report
output for PCT data collection
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