Health Check Focus Release Notes

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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.