New Contract 2008-9 Guidelines

The new guidelines written to match the v12 business rules are now available to download from the INPS website.

The new guidelines to support the NGMS Contract 2008-9 are redesigned, with revised colours and updated to match the business rules v12. During the redesign we have appended a number of new management guidelines which will not only allow the practices to add the correct Read Codes needed to report to QMAS but will also assist in the day to management of patients with Chronic Disease within the QOF Domains.

We have also embedded some Macmillan Guidelines for the management of Cancer and Palliative Care patients.

We have tried to give a fresh new look to the guidelines and have changed the colours and added some additional guidelines where appropriate which will help with the overall management and administration of chronic diseases within the domains. The lines that relate specifically to QOF reports are marked with an asterisk to make it easier to identify them.

Once you’ve imported the new guidelines, you may wish to add them to your local guideline index; see here for instructions.

Adding a tab in Consultation Manager for the New Contract Guidelines

Once you have downloaded and installed the version 10 nGMS Guidelines, you may wish to add a tab to Consultation Manager to access them, rather than using the local Guideline Index.

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Downloading nGMS v10 Guidelines.

Version 10 of the nGMS New Contract Guidelines is now available for download from the INPS website. You can find them by going to the nGMS resources section of the www.inps.co.uk main website - the link to the nGMS section is on the front page.

Alternatively, you can download the file directly by clicking here. When prompted, you should choose to Save the file - save it to somewhere easy to access, like the desktop or you MY Documents folder.

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