Services

GP practices and the primary care organisations that support them (including groups of practices such as Hubs, PCNs, Federations and CCGs and AHSNs) can access a variety of products and services from PRIMIS enabling them to meet their varied data and reporting requirements.

Though CHART and the range of corresponding national PRIMIS quality improvement tools remain available, there are additionally many ways in which PRIMIS' expert staff can support primary care teams with quality improvement, clinical management of patients and case finding.

Contact PRIMIS with your enquiries about any of our services:

Email PRIMIS

View our case studies

Tools and developmental services

Specific, tailored-to-you quality improvement tools, templates and reporting solutions can be developed to meet the exact needs of individual localities or research studies based on primary care data.

Bespoke tools such as these will provide meaningful analysis that are specific to the locality, facilitating a population health management approach, highlighting data trends or service needs across geographical areas and for specific population groups.

PRIMIS can offer different levels of support at each stage from initial consultation through to development, training, project management and producing supporting resources. Clinical and technical advice including feasibility assessments and the best approach to data extraction.

We also support a bespoke support service to complement existing tools, tailoring a complete package to suit your local requirements. Your requirements may need a specific extraction method, varying levels of support and resources, action learning sets or changes to indicators or results displays for example.

See the list of current tools

Training

PRIMIS delivers targeted, specific training to meet your practice or organisational needs.

Recent training examples include a series of workshops for the national organisation CPPE (Centre for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education) to raise awareness of the range of PRIMIS tools and how they can be used to make improvements in care (including the safety and effectiveness of prescribing). These events were provided in a workshop environment with the financial support of Boehringer Ingelheim.

Tailored training services might include:

face-to-face training,
workbooks and presentation materials
online-delivered training
audio and video resources
full virtual learning environments including activities, assignments and discussion areas
sponsored programmes of learning to provide educational programmes

Training terms and conditions

Consultancy (clinical or non-clinical)

PRIMIS can help you prepare for the delivery of both local and national improvement programmes. This work can include the project management of the programme as a whole, writing specific queries/searches, training and information staff, preparation of materials and help with analysis of outcomes.

"PRIMIS was very supportive in helping to design and implement the exceptional, high profile H5N1 (swine flu) vaccine uptake collection, at very short notice. PRIMIS consistently deliver to agreed deadlines. Quality of the product/service provided - very high. The data uploads are consistently accurate. The advice and the management of the services they provide is very high. Future use of PRIMIS services – a definite yes."

Peter Gates
Project Manager
ImmForm Team
Public Health England

SNOMED CT

Our preparations for the implementation of SNOMED CT have been underway for some time and our staff are already knowledgeable in SNOMED CT.

We have provided specifications in SNOMED CT for Public Health England for all national immunisation uptake programmes (with the exception of PPV Long) and the British Heart Foundation's Prevent project, underlining our knowledge and commitment going forward.

PRIMIS offers a range of support, services and tools in regards to SNOMED CT:

advise and support you in your transition
write specifications and quality improvement tools in SNOMED CT
provide training and awareness events
perform bridging studies and validation exercises

PRIMIS strives to keep up with major SNOMED CT releases. Please note, however, that SNOMED CT release dates are sometimes subject to slippage for various reasons, which may affect PRIMIS’ specifications and bridging studies etc.

The following two NHS Digital links provide useful information on SNOMED CT releases and any issues:

Information on the future release cycle for SNOMED CT UK clinical edition 2021-22

Important notices, date changes and known issues regarding SNOMED CT releases

Specifications

PRIMIS has been commissioned to write detailed data extraction coding specifications for national programmes and bespoke local requirements for many years.

Our clinicians and experts are now writing specifications in SNOMED CT as well as other coding systems. We have already successfully developed data extraction specifications for NHS England in SNOMED CT for the meningitis, pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccination programmes.

Specification work includes:

the code specification itself
advice on preparation for audits
guidance and training documents
business rules

See information on the 2020/2021 Influenza Vaccine Uptake Reporting Specification