OCCG Weekly Bulletin
Wednesday 20 September 2017
Included in this bulletin:
- Duplicate Discharge Summaries
- OCCG Datix Upgrade
- Prescribing Information (APCO and Antibiotic Prescribing Software)
- Approved Provider List Agreements for the Provision of Community Primary Care Services – 1 April 2018
- Changes to Oxfordshire County Councils Daytime Support
- Antimicrobial Resistance Public Health Campaign
- Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children’s Board (OSCB) – Learning from Case Reviews in Oxfordshire Event
Information for Practices
Duplicate Discharge Summaries:
Thank you for your DATIX feedback on the issue duplicate electronic discharge summaries being received, including the spike in duplicates received over August. Duplicates arise for a number of reasons, some technical and some behavioural. However the OUHFT have identified the main cause of the current surge in duplicates and have developed a solution which, subject to testing and implementation, should drastically reduce the number being received by practices. We expect this to take effect within a month and will be in contact again to confirm that the fix has beensuccessfullyimplemented.
Dr Merlin Dunlop
Oxfordshire CCG
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OCCG Datix Upgrade:
Please be aware that the OCCG Datix software is being upgraded on Thursday 05 October 2017. Datix will be unavailable to all users during this time. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Datix Team -
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Prescribing Information (APCO and Antibiotic Prescribing Software):
The attached updatecontains useful information about:
- Recent decisions taken at the OCCG Area Prescribing Committee
- Free software to help reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing and meet requirements of the new Prescribing Quality Scheme
Approved Provider List Agreements for the Provision of Community Primary Care Services – 1April 2018:
The Public Health Contractsyou hold with Oxfordshire County Council (the ‘Council’) will expire on 31March 2018.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) for Service Providers to apply to join a new four-year Framework opened on Friday 15th September 2017 and will include the following Call-off Contracts:
NHS Health Check Programme;
Long Acting Reversible Contraception;
Drug Misuse – Shared Care Service (Opiate Substitution Therapy) – will be issued on Monday 9th October 2017.
The ITT will include access to the updated specifications and the new prices paid for provision of these Public Health services (which have been renegotiated with the LMC).
Applications for the NHS Health Check Programme and Long Acting Reversible Contraception are due by Friday 13th October 2017.
The Council advertise all its tenders through the South East Business Portal.The website is located here:
Please click hereto view more information and next steps.
If you have any questions in regards to the ITT, please contact the Councils Procurement Officer Carol Rogan:
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Changes to Oxfordshire County Councils Daytime Support:
The new Community Support Service is starting on 1 October replacing the Council’s Health and Wellbeing and Learning Disability Daytime Support Services. Please click herefor more information.
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Antimicrobial Resistance Public Health Campaign:
In October 2017 Public Health England will launch a national campaign across England to support the government’s efforts to reduce inappropriate prescriptions for antibiotics by raising awareness of the issue of antibiotic resistance and reducing demand from the public. For more information please click here.
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Safeguarding Children’s Board (OSCB) – Learning from Case Reviews in Oxfordshire Event:
Please see the attached poster for the case reviews learning event that will be held on 19 October 2017.
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