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25/01/2010 NVUG Members get 25 more QOF Points

The NVUG’s 25th national conference took place at the 4-star Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 19 and 20 November.

The 2010 National Conference will be held on 11th & 12th November.

Think you can’t afford it this year?...


28/10/2009 Read Updates Quarter 3, 2009

Details of the Read Code updates for Quarter 3, 2009, are now available for download from the members download area.


04/10/2009 25th National Conference

Details of the draft program and booking form for the 2009 conference are now available on the Events page.


17/09/2009 Flu Audits Error

The current flu audits, which you may be using to call in patients for immunisation, have an error which causes some non-eligible patients to be included in the eligible group. Specifically, they are including patients with F13...


17/08/2009 File Uploading

If you have files to share with other Vision users, e.g. guidelines you have written, protocols, spreadsheets, images, reports, etc, etc, then you may use the new File Uploads page to upload them to the NVUG website.

The NVUG...


21/07/2009 Improvements to Member Services

NVUG is constantly reviewing its services to members, and announces some improvements now:

NVUG Members who are registered with NVUG forum may now use their forum login/password to access the members-only area of the NVUG...


29/04/2009 Read Code Updates Q1 2009

Read Code Updates for Q1 2009 are now available for download, including some notes and highlighted entries.

Within the Read code list there are some nGMS codes – helpfully colour coded. As I scanned the list several other caught...


10/04/2009 QOF Year-end Recovery

INPS have now posted details on their helpline blog about how to check and correct your yearend QOF report.

The instructions are broken down by country and by type of hosting e.g. LAN or VES, so follow the link and select the...


02/04/2009 Errors in QMAS Submissions

INPS have issued the following statement:

"Following the QMAS transmission on 31st March 2009 INPS were made aware by practices that there seemed to be an error in figures reported to QMAS. The error is apparent in any...


09/03/2009 Changes in HbA1c Units

National changes have been announced for the units for reporting HbA1c results.

For a period of about two years, results will be reported in both old and new units. We understand that a new Read code has been requested (42W5)...


01/03/2009 INPS Training Discount Scheme

INPS are once again offering NVUG Members a 10% discount on additional training purchased through their Training Centre in Coventry. The following conditions apply to this offer:

Discounted training may only be claimed by...


23/12/2008 Diary Dates

The 25th Annual NVUG National Conference will be held in Stratford November 19th/20th 2009. More details nearer the time.

Please reserve these dates in your diary now.


17/12/2008 Charity donation

Magician at NVUG Conference dinner November 2008

Merlin Medical Relief

Record Donation

At the 2008 NVUG National Conference Dinner, the charity selected to benefit from the Raffle proceeds was Merlin Medical Relief. This year, thanks to the generosity of all those present,...


08/10/2008 GP2GP Warning

Notes from TPP SystemOne Practices

A potential problem has come to light where some records being transferred from certain Northern PCTs may not be complete.

Apparently some have kept their original Emis LV or Vision systems...


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Articles from the last 28 days on the INPS Helpline Blog

26. February 2010
This applies to Scottish practices only. There has been a problem with the PP01 numerator lines for Scottish practices since the audits for the version 16 business rules have been installed. The associated Data Quality audits imported a search for the CVD risk assessments that overwrote the Scottish search with one for England. This means that the ASSIGN scores are not currently showing as counting towards the PP01 denominator.   A fix has been written and is currently being tested. As soon as this is available we will be applying an upgrade to all Scottish sites. We expect this to be installed very quickly but will also be posting the fix on the website should you wish to apply this earlier. In the mean-time please continue to use the ASSIGN score as normal as they...