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Dec - 16/12/11
PCT User
- Amendments made to all reports to display zero values
- Fixed a bug that incorrectly sent PNL reminder emails to inactive users
- Fixed a bug that generated a reminder letter incorrectly
Practice User
- Added the calculated Alcohol FAST score to the ‘Completed Health Check’ Report
- Removed inappropriate READ codes from ‘Completed Health Check’ Report
- Removed inappropriate reports for practice users
Health Check Provider
- Added the Health Check Status screen for Pharmacy users to allow viewing of health checks at all statuses including incomplete
- Added ‘Completed Health Check’ Report preview option for health check providers
Sept - 30/09/11
PCT
- NHS Health Check National Dataset now implemented.
- Added facility to generate an XML file for National Reporting of Health Check data
- Practice list now includes count of remaining reminder letters for each practice .
- Users Email addresses now included in the automated inactive users email notification.
- Option added to allow generation of ALL initial invite letters.
- Option added to allow generation of ALL 1st reminder letters.
- Print batch size now auto-adjusts to maximum letters remaining.
- 1st Invite and reminder count discrepancies resolved.
- Health Checks for patients with pre-existing conditions of Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Atrial Fibrillation are not counted as valid (Lewisham only)
- Amendment to reporting business rules for Lewisham
Health Check Provider
- South Asian flag now selected automatically if the user selects an ethnicity marked as South Asian origin.
- Patients Ethnicity field is now pre-populated from clinical system data
- CVD risk screen label changed to Left Ventricle Hypertrophy.
- Upper limit for Total Cholesterol decreased to 9.9 to comply with NHS Health Check Data Set
- Ethnicity Categories converted to use 16+1 descriptions to comply with NHS Health Check Data Set.
- New buttons added to Patient Details Screen to allow Edit and View of previous health checks
- Health Check provider name and date actioned by GP now listed on the Health Check status screen.
- New Gender types added to support NHS Health Check Data Set
- New additional Smoking Status types added to support NHS Health Check Data Set
- Revised Information & Advice, Further Assessments and Actions sections added to CVD Results page to comply with NHS Health Check Data Set.
- Completed Health Check report enhanced to support NHS Health Check Data Set
Practice
- Option added to view patient Health Check reports once actioned/rejected
July - 05/07/11
PCT
- The inclusion of a report to allow PCT staff to monitor the programme and particularly the follow up of High and Very High Risk patients.
- Exclude patients with Familial Hypercholesterolaemia from the call/recall programme.
- The amendment of the Practice Report to provide sub-sections for each type of Health Check Provider.
- Four new reports added:
- Age Breakdown report
- Ethnicity Breakdown report
- Sex Breakdown report
- Advice/Referrals report
Health Check Provider
- An amendment to the Results page of the Health Check Wizard to provide more comprehensive and systematic method to capture advice, referrals and actions carried out and follow-up actions recommended by health check providers.
Practice
- Read code for No Family history amended from 1269 to 1224 on the Completed Health Check Report.
May- 04/05/11
HC provider
- Amendments to the CVD risk score algorithm to remove the weighting for obese patients (Lambeth only)
- New option to provide facility to view previous completed health checks
- Add a limit of 250 characters to the Notes field of a completed health check
- Increase the system inactivity timeout from 20 to 35 minutes (Lewisham only)
Practice
- Amend the Completed Health Check report sent to practices to add the additional READ code 38B10 when a health check has been carried out by a third party
- Various amendments to ethnicity READ codes to reflect latest DH guidelines
- Improvements made to Completed Health Check report sent to practices in alcohol, BMI, Diet advice & Exercise referral sections
PCT
- Implement the First Reminder letter for Lewisham PCT
- Implement the High Risk follow-up letter for Lewisham PCT
- Amendments to business rules to allow common reporting between Practice Focus and Health Check Focus
- Removal of black boxes and layout changes to Lambeth letter templates
- Correction of the warning message displayed when generating a PNL
- Removal of duplicate/incomplete health checks
February- 02/03/11
Practice
- Warning message now displayed on PNL screen if a practice tries to navigate onto a new page without saving.
- New default Action description (‘Please select’) added to PNL screen to assist practices with tracking progress on overall PNL list.
- Rename Dr Logan & partners to Mawbey Group practice (G85130).
- Rename G85645 Pavillion practice to Y03063 Pavillion Medical Centre.
- Remove ‘FP69’ postponement reason.
- Add new postponement reason of 'Moved Away'.
HC Provider
- Additional information added to patient search screen to explain why a patient is ineligible for a health check – Description now includes; Age restriction, Pre-existing condition, Recent health check.
- New GP referral now generated if Total Cholesterol >=7.5.
- New patient consent description added for '5. I consent to anonymised data collected during this Health Check being shared with other health professionals for research purposes '.
- Premature Family history of CVD revised to only two options; CVD in 1st degree male relative <55yrs, CVD in 1st degree female relative < 65yrs.
- Postcode field now mandatory when adding a new patient.
PCT/PCSS
- New back button included on the patient display screen.
- New automated High risk follow-up letter generated for all un-registered patients with CVD risk >20%.
- New comments box added to Health Check Actioned process to record the action taken.
- New column displayed on Patient List of who postponed the patient.
- 'View Management Reports' feature now added to the Role Type 'Other'.
- Corrected error in email expiry notification that displayed a negative number of days.
- Corrected an error with the password expiry notification sent to inactive users
- Add CHD reference to the Reminder letter template
- Removed the restriction on the email address having to be unique
- Completed Health Check email notifications for High risk patients are now marked as Urgent.
- New report added to display which practices are not approving their PNL’s.
- New email notification added to highlight user accounts that has not been used for 3 months.
- Health Check by Provider report amended to include practice numbers.
- Health Check by Provider report amended to add a percentage after each of low/medium/high and very high risk score.
- Health Check by Provider report amended to remove ‘Actioned by GP’ column.
- Health Check by Provider report amended to add the total number of checks delivered by provider and total by risk group.
- Amendments to Invitation letter template for Lewisham.
- Add ability to view a patients address on the Health Check Status screen.


