GRASP-AF audit tool mentioned in PULSE Today

The web version of PULSE Today has suggested that GPs use the GRASP-AF audit tool to check patients’ scores and anticoagulation status in preparation for QOF.

The article ’10 ways to prepare for the 2015/16 contract’ looks at the amendments to the QOF for 2015/16. The PRIMIS and NHS Improving Quality audit tool, GRASP-AF, is mentioned under ‘No. 4. Adapt your QOF strategy to recognise the lower points value’.

Other PRIMIS audit tools that can help GP practices prepare for the QOF include:

• Asthma Care
• Casefinder (covers osteoporosis and peripheral arterial disease)
• Diabetes Care
• GRASP-COPD
• GRASP-HF
• Learning Disability Self-Assessment Framework
• Smoking Cessation Management
• Warfarin Patient Safety

The GRASP-AF audit tool

GRASP-AF is part of the GRASP suite of tools developed by PRIMIS in partnership with NHS Improving Quality. 

GRASP-AF is a free, easy-to-use tool that assists GP practices to interrogate their clinical data enabling them to improve the management and care of patients with AF and to reduce their risk of stroke through appropriate intervention with anticoagulation. The tool also assists with casefinding activity, helping practices to establish more accurate prevalence rates within the practice population.

Find out more about the free GRASP-AF audit tool online. There are also various case studies, documentation and guides and a page of video resources.