Our first four E4H sessions are now up and running at the local Leisure Centre running for 10 weeks. We will be staggering further sessions so that the E4H trainers are able to manage their workload.
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New Code added for Pre Diabetic lifestyle advice
Emis have approved a new code for “Lifestyle advice regarding risk of Diabetes”
Code Request response from Emis
The Code forum has now approved your request for ‘Lifestyle advice regarding risk of diabetes’. The code EMISNQLI53 will be available as part of the May 2013 Code update – LV Encode update 139 and PCS Clinical term update 180 and EMIS Web 79.
The approved Term has also been requested to the NHS Connecting for Health Terminology service for their consideration. If approved it will be assigned a Version 2 Clinical code and released as part of the NHS bi-annual update (these are released every April and October).
I will add this to the Emis Pre-Diabetes Alert Popup Protocol so that it disables the popup for a period of time when entered in the notes. (When it is distributed)
Newbury Weekly News Article on PreDM project
A positive article in the local newspaper will hopefully raise the profile of the project in the community and also spur people into thinking generally about their own risks whatever their situation. Read it here, (800kb)
Paper version of PreDM Questionnaire uploaded
I have uploaded the paper version of the questionnaire we have used pre-enrollment in the Eat4Health program in the resources section
PreDM- QDiabetes EmisWEB popup alert
I have uploaded an EmisWEB Popup alert to the resources page. You can download and install it with the instructions on the same page and it will then alert you to any patient with a recorded QDiabetes Risk of > 20% 10 year risk whenever you consult with them.
PreDM Response to invitations
We have now sent out our initial invitations to the Pre DM project to patients. As we found in the first trial we ran last year, about 15-20% of invitees responded to the letter invite alone. We now plan to follow this up this week with a phone call reminder/invitation (which when we tested it last year created a further 15-20% response rate). Some interesting responses to the online questionnaire are coming in which I will report on later.
Further surgery “goes live” with PreDM project
A further surgery goes live with sending out invitations to the PreDM project. North Hants Hospital have agreed to process the blood tests for their patients using the same proforma as the Royal Berks Hospital making actioning and processing between surgeries seamless.
Discussed local publicity campaign to promote the idea and process amongst the wider population when the E4H sessions go live.
First E4H Session already booked up and equivalent number of questionnaires completed online.
PreDM project featured in GP Magazine
Detailed instructions posted of searches and letters for PreDM project
I have posted detailed instructions of the searches we ran and letters to patients selected by the searches in the Resources section
First invitations go out
A very exciting day. We have run the searches and QDiabetes assessment at four practices all within Newbury, and selected the target group. This is a randomised selection of those over 30% risk giving 50 patients per practice, including patients with over 60% risk.
200 letters are on their way out, with invitation to participate, collect bloods and complete the online questionnaire. Eat4Health sessions booked for mid April giving 4 weeks to “sign up”.
I will post the letter and search templates online later today.