Payment/MI indicators
Initially, the collection for the 2022-23 service year only included data for payment indicators only; management information indicators were added to the collection in August 2022.
Indicator NCD011
The data for NCD011 may erroneously exclude some patients who do have high blood pressure. This is due to the way that some GP clinical systems capture and manage blood pressure records containing a systolic or diastolic value only. The implementation of this indicator is therefore currently under review and the data should be treated with caution.
Indicator NCD112
Due to the way that dates are sometimes applied to faecal immunochemical test (FIT) results when they are received by GP practices, the numerators recorded for NCD112 may be miscounting patients. The implementation of this indicator remained under review for the 22/23 financial year and the data should be treated with caution. Some GP system suppliers may have returned '0' counts for NCD112 during this time period. Please note this issue has been rectified from June 2023 in the 23/24 financial year.
Indicator NCD114
Indicator NCD114 may erroneously exclude/include some patients who have had a medication error in relation to oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) therefore this data should be treated with caution and caveated appropriately. Please note this issue has been rectified for 2023-24.
Indicators NCDMI105-110, NCDMI134, NCDMI135, NCDMI138-165, NCD018
Data for the following indicators may be shown as 0. This is because in order to extract these indicators as specified in the business rules, some system supplier development work was required which was not possible to conclude in time for the initial collection of the management information indicators:
- NCDMI105 - 110
- NCDMI134 - NCDMI135
- NCDMI138 -165
Indicator NCD018 is also subject to this development work and data for this indicator may also be shown as 0 at present.
September 2022
Seasonal flu indicators
Due to a technical issue relating to the update of the refsets containing the injectable seasonal flu vaccination codes, data for indicators NCD002, NCD003 NCDMI025, NCDMI026 and NCDMI027 may not be representative of activity in the month of September 2022 and should be interpreted with caution and caveated appropriately.
Pactice omissions
Please note, due to technical issues with data collection, approximately 870 practices using the EMIS system that were included in the August 2022 extract are not included in the September 2022 extract.
May 2022
Practice omissions
Please note that due to technical issues with data collection there is no data for the following practices for May 2022:
Dr Jefferies & Partners, 292 Munster Road (E85029)
Eightlands Surgery (B85020)
Elm Tree Surgery (A81608)
Greasbrough Medical Centre (C87603)
Walker Medical Group (A86011)