Letter: I

IUCD Mennorrhagia-Fitting

Purpose and outline

An Intrauterine device (IUCD) can be used for the treatment of heavy periods.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of patients who have had removal and fitting of a LNG-IUD (Mirena) (For gynaecology purposes).

Number of patients who have had fitting (or a failed fitting) of a LNG-IUD (Mirena) (For gynaecology purposes).

Number of patients who have had removal of a LNG-IUD (Mirena) (For gynaecology purposes).

Declaration.

Implanon

Purpose and outline

Implanon is a type of contraceptive implant that is inserted into the skin of the upper arm to provide long term contraception. Read more on the NHS website.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of Implants fitted.

Number of Implants removed.

Number of Sexual Health Screening undertaken.

Number of Follow-up Appointments.

Declaration.

Improving Access Psychological Therapies (IAPT)

Purpose and outline

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is an NHS programme that provides evidence-based talking therapies for people with anxiety or depression. Read more on the NHS website.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of Initial Consultations using the Questionnaire.

Total number of Referrals to CBT.

Declaration.

Intermediate Care Beds

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of Intermediate Care Beds.

Declaration.

Inclusion Health

Purpose and outline

Refers to planning, developing and improving health services for people who are in inclusion health groups. Read more on the NHS website.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Inclusion Health – Core Searches. 

Inclusion health element one – BBV Testing Positive result. 

Inclusion Health Element One – Declaration. 

Inclusion Health Element One GP Training. 

Inclusion Health Element One HCA Training. 

Inclusion Health Element One Health Assessments. 

Inclusion Health Element One Nurse Training. 

Inclusion Health Element One Per Patient. 

Inclusion Health Element One Safe Surgery Toolkit. 

Declaration.

Immediate Necessary Treatment – Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme 2021-2022

Purpose and outline

The seasonal flu programme is a long, established vaccination programme that is proven to save lives and deliver a cost-effective prevention programme. High levels of flu immunisation is one of the most effective interventions that can be made to reduce harm from flu and pressures on health and social care services during the winter. Flu is a key factor in NHS winter pressures. It impacts on both those who fall ill and the NHS services that provide direct care and on the wider health and social care system that supports people in at-risk groups. The annual immunisation programme is a critical element of the system-wide approach for delivering robust and resilient health and care services throughout the year, helping to reduce unplanned hospital admissions and pressure on A&E.

The current 2021/22 seasonal influenza programme has now been expanded to include a new cohort for frontline primary care staff and enables the vaccination of some eligible cohorts regardless of whether they are registered with the GP practice. The cohorts that can be vaccinated by any practice are:

frontline health and social care staff employed by:

  • a registered residential care/ nursing home
  • a voluntary managed hospice provider
  • those living in:
  • long-stay facilities
  • nursing homes
  • other long-stay health or social care facilities
  • a house bound Patient (defined in the ES specification)

locum GPs

primary care contractors (primary medical services, pharmaceutical services, primary dental services or general ophthalmic services) and their frontline staff, including locums, involved in the patient-facing frontline provision of NHS primary care services and non-clinical staff who play an integral part in patient-facing care on a day-to-day basis

For those patients who are unregistered with the GP practices will need to recorded with Immediate Necessary Treatment status and coded as needs influenza vaccination.

GP practices receive an item of service (IoS) payment of £10.06 per dose administered of each patient eligible for seasonal flu vaccination.

How this service is commissioned and provided

NHS England Regional Local Offices commission this service from GP practices.

NHS England service specifications

Information about this service

  • Quality service start date: 1st September 2021
  • Quality service end date: 31st March 2022
  • Payment period: One off –payment expected in May 2022
  • Collection frequency: Annual – One off
  • Manual or automatic entry: Automatic
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (Cegedim, Emis and TPP)
  • Co-commissioning: No
  • Classification: Vaccination and immunisation programme
  • Payment count/clinical codes

Commissioners and practice should refer to the supporting business rules for information on management information counts and clinical codes.

Indicators No Longer In QOF (INLIQ) 2023-2024

Purpose and outline

As part of the contractual agreement for 2023/24, it was agreed to continue collecting information relating to indicators no longer in QOF.

The INLIQ service contains indicators retired from payment through the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), the funding for these indicators was transferred into Global Sum (general practice baselines). 

Not all the indicators that are removed from QOF will move to INLIQ, only those where it is felt that continued data would be useful are collected through the service. 

For future years, further retirements would be considered for ongoing collections and the indicators in this collection would also be reviewed to check to appropriateness of continuing to collect the data.

Information about this service:

  • Quality service start date: 1 April 2023
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2024
  • Payment period: N/A – contractual requirement with no funding attached
  • Collection frequency: Annually
  • Manual or automatic entry: Automatic
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (TPP, Cegedim and EMIS)
  • System type: Retired QOF QS report

Service user guides

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe how to participate, manually enter and declare achievement for this service.

Payment count/clinical codes

No payments associated.

Further information to support users can be found on the SNOMED CT Implementation in Primary Care site , including Codes to support Technical Requirements 18-19 – a document providing appropriate Read v2 and CTV3 codes for SNOMED CT concept ID.