nGMS Contract 2008-9

Although the GP contract for 2008-9 has been running since 1st April 2008 the GP system suppliers have only recently received the Business Rules which allow us to write the queries required to extract the correct data and send it to QMAS for reporting.

The Business Rules v12 are now receiving attention at INPS so that audits and guidelines to match them can be produced.
However the new reporting audits cannot be released until they have been conformed to the CfH standards and the message tested with the new QMAS database to ensure that we have correctly interpreted these rules.
Conformance testing will commence the week of 13th October and we hope to have completed during that week, however QMAS will not be ready to accept the new messages until between 20th and 27th October after which we be ready to start the roll out of the audits.

In the meantime we have written a small temporary audit:

nGMS Contract 2008-9 Temporary Audits

    Interim Audits for Changes to Business Rules v12

These interim audits have been produced in order to allow practices to check their progress to date with the changes to this year’s nGMS Contract before the conformed reporting audits can be released. They can be downloaded from the INPS website under Client Zone - Downloads - Audits.  The audits highlight the significant changes between v11 and v12.
http://www.inps.co.uk/downloads/clinaudit/clinaudit.htm