NQMC Update Service: September 8, 2014 ▲ British Medical Association

NQMC Update Service: September 8, 2014

British Medical Association

• Asthma: the contractor establishes and maintains a register of patients with asthma, excluding patients with asthma who have been prescribed no asthma-related drugs in the preceding 12 months. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Asthma: the percentage of patients aged 8 or over diagnosed with asthma (diagnosed on or after 1 April 2006), on the register, with measures of variability or reversibility recorded between 3 months before and anytime after diagnosis. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Asthma: the percentage of patients with asthma aged 14 or over and who have not attained the age of 20, on the register, in whom there is a record of smoking status in the preceding 12 months. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Asthma: the percentage of patients with asthma, on the register, who have had an asthma review in the preceding 12 months that includes an assessment of asthma control using the 3 RCP questions. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the contractor establishes and maintains a register of all patients aged 17 years and over with diabetes mellitus, which specifies the type of diabetes where a diagnosis has been confirmed. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients newly diagnosed with diabetes, on the register, in the preceding 1 April to 31 March who have a record of being referred to a structured education programme within 9 months after entry on to the diabetes register. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, in whom the last blood pressure reading (measured in the preceding 12 months) is 140/80 mmHg or less. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, in whom the last blood pressure reading (measured in the preceding 12 months) is 150/90 mmHg or less. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, in whom the last IFCC-HbA1c is 59 mmol/mol or less in the preceding 12 months. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, in whom the last IFCC-HbA1c is 64 mmol/mol or less in the preceding 12 months. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, in whom the last IFCC-HbA1c is 75 mmol/mol or less in the preceding 12 months. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, who have had influenza immunisation in the preceding 1 August to 31 March.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, whose last measured total cholesterol (measured within the preceding 12 months) is 5 mmol/l or less. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, with a diagnosis of nephropathy (clinical proteinuria) or micro-albuminuria who are currently treated with an ACE-I (or ARBs). This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes mellitus: the percentage of patients with diabetes, on the register, with a record of a foot examination and risk classification: 1) low risk (normal sensation, palpable pulses), 2) increased risk (neuropathy or absent pulses), 3) high risk (neuropathy or absent pulses plus deformity or skin changes in previous ulcer) or 4) ulcerated foot within the preceding 12 months. This updates a previously published measure summary.