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General Practice Annual Declaration

General Practice Annual Declaration. Summary of Changes. 15 September 2014. Introduction. Questions asked in the annual electronic declaration have been updated to account for: Changes in the contract. Changes in referencing.

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General Practice Annual Declaration

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  1. General Practice Annual Declaration Summary of Changes 15 September 2014

  2. Introduction Questions asked in the annual electronic declaration have been updated to account for: Changes in the contract. Changes in referencing. Changes relevant to where CQC Essential Standards will be replaced by Fundamental Standards Changes made by request of GP practices to improve their understanding of the questions. This translates to: 11 revisions to questions which were asked last year. 19 new questions have been introduced ( 7 of these are only necessary to respond to, depending on the response provided to a previous new question asked). 4 question have been removed 46 questions remain unchanged.

  3. Questions revised: Why changed? CRB no longer exists and has been replaced by DBS.

  4. Questions revised: Why changed? By request of practices to clarify meaning of 084 guidance requirements which was referred to in the question asked last year. Not all 084 numbers are premium rate. The question and response options have been improved to reflect this.

  5. Questions revised: Response options: Ref. 1: Website Feature: If selecting ‘not able to confirm ’ a ‘pop up’ message will appear to say that: “declaring not able to confirm, means that you are not able to provide evidence from patient sources, this does not necessarily mean you are not meeting the reasonable needs of your patients”. Why Changed? Increased profile of patient dissatisfaction in access. Question has been revised to be specific to evidence which has been “obtained from patient sources”. Question 4Q (r) has been revised in response from feedback to help improve clarity

  6. Questions revised: Why changed? By request of practices to clarify the meaning of last year’s question which asked if practices were responsible for care in the Out of Hours period (I.e. yes/opted in or no/opted out).

  7. Questions revised: Three questions: 5L, 5M and 5N are unchanged other than the addition of the prefix starting statement “With regard to dispensing doctors…” Why changed? By request of practices to clarify these questions are specific to having dispensing doctors. Also introduced “N/A” as a response option.

  8. Questions revised: Why Changed? Question previously asked about CQC Essential Standards. In April 2015, CQC Essential Standards will be replaced by Fundamental Standards. This revision to the question helps to maintain alignment with CQC whilst not been invalidated when Fundamental Standards are introduced later.

  9. New Questions Ref.1: “This means that there has been a change in the contractual entity of the practice” Ref. 2: N/A, applies if the practice is new and was not able to complete an electronic declaration last year. Why introduce this question? Helps to account for changes in a practice configuration when practices declare a second time under the same organisation code.

  10. New Questions Why Introduce 4D? It remains unacceptable for patients to be phoning premium rate phone numbers to reach their GP practice. Question helps to understand extent the issue is likely to continue for owing to contract duration with telephone providers.

  11. New Questions Why introduced? Necessary to understand access to General practice

  12. New Questions [1] Question 4O (n) is applicable if responding No to question 4N only. Why asked? Necessary to reflect changes in the contract

  13. New Questions Why Introduced? Necessary to reflect changes in the contract.

  14. New Questions Why Introduced? Necessary to be assured that patients have access to services during an emergency when the practice is not available during core contract hours

  15. New Question Friends and Family Test: Why introduced? Necessary to reflect changes in the contract and provide further support where necessary.

  16. New Question Why Introduced? Necessary to reflect changes in the contract

  17. New Question [1]Declaring Yes means a change has occurred and the practice has informed CQC. [2]Declaring No means a change has occurred but the practice has not yet notified CQC. [3]Declaring N/A means no changes have occurred Why introduced? This question previously referred to the practice’s action plans for meeting the CQC Essential Standards. This revision to the question helps to maintain alignment with CQC whilst not been invalidated when Fundamental Standards are introduced later.

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