QMS recognises the difficulties practices and PCTs face in developing against the wide range of national and local quality targets, and in providing data to demonstrate achievement against these targets. To assist practices and PCTs striving to meet their responsibilities, QMS have produced a range of consultancy and training services.

Consultancy

We have a team of consultants who can provide on-site support for practice development, for example, supporting practices to:

• Improve data quality, disease registers and prevalence accuracy.
• Meet requirements for DES 09/10 (alcohol screening, osteoporosis, ethnicity and language recording, learning disabilities).
• Meet LES requirements.
• Improve processes in Long Term Conditions Management (including recall and review, use of action plans, exception coding).
• Meet the IM&T DES.
• Deliver the Vascular Health Checks programme.

• Chronic disease management targets (including QOF).
• Child immunisation targets (DES and HPA).
• Flu and pneumococcal (including pandemic flu and uploads to HPA).
• Enhanced services (DES, bespoke LES audits, and local QOF arrangements).
• Referrals.
• Health Checks Programme.

In addition to on site consultancy QMS can offer group training, with a focus on quality improvement, data quality and more effective use of IM&T.  Many of our seminars/presentations are ideal for protected learning time sessions, both at individual practice and PCT arranged groups.

Template / guideline development

To support consistent data entry, QMS can offer template building services, for individual practices, or across the whole PCT. We also produce comprehensive guidelines for practice use, for example, guidelines to support development of 'CVD at risk' registers, direct and local enhanced services guidance, Read code aide memoirs, exception reporting guidance and many more.