Physical health checks for people with severe mental illness
Background
NHS England and NHS Improvement is committed to leading work to ensure that “by 2020-21, 280,000 people living with SMI have their physical health needs met by increasing early detection and expanding access to evidence-based physical care assessment and intervention each year”. This equates to a target of 60% of people on the General Practice SMI register receiving a full and comprehensive physical health check across primary and secondary care. To ensure monitoring drives the right clinical behaviour, it is crucial that NHSE and NHSI is able to monitor delivery of the full comprehensive health check and to collect benchmarking information on the uptake of the corresponding relevant follow-up interventions and access to national cancer screening programmes. In addition, in order to understand the impact of the health checks and provide rapid and ongoing policy evaluation, it is important to understand physical health outcomes. Patient-level information is required to monitor these outcomes.
Purpose and outline
The purpose is to calculate, report and pay for activity undertaken in line with contractual agreement.
How this service is commissioned and provided
NHS England service specification, guidance and technical requirements will be published at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/investment/gp-contract/
Information about this service:
- Participation only in CQRS
- Quality service start date: 1 April 2020
- Quality service end date: 31 March 2026
- Collection frequency: Annually
- Manual or automatic entry: Manual data collection
Service user guides
The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe how to participate, manually enter and declare achievement for this service. Activity and achievement should be recorded monthly.