All Pinnacle practices have access to clinical dashboards that allow them to do deep dives into ‘flu eligibility, diabetes care, COVID-19 care (with recently updated therapeutics eligibility), enrolment and some standards around cardiovascular disease (CVD).
We are starting working with Te Manawa Taki Cardiac Network and the Heart Foundation’s Gerry Devlin on expanding the standards reflected in the CVD dashboard to help improve management of lipids, blood pressure atrial fibrillation and heart failure.
These dashboard allow you to identify and recall the patients who need your help, we are really proud of them and this approach is getting national attention.
We allow practices to benchmark themselves against other Pinnacle practices in their district, or the network as a whole, but tools like the recently updated EPiC CVD dashboard allow you to explore prescribing for secondary prevention of CVD benchmarked against national data.
CVD is an area with significant disparities, and big gains can be made by improving medicine access for these patients. The freely available EPiC dashboard allows users to easily see any gaps in their prescribing for patients who have had a CVD event, and also provides commentary on best practice.
Pinnacle has developed a rural chest pain assessment method that allows low-risk patients in rural communities to be safely assessed and managed by their general practice, rather than travelling significant distances to hospital - often needlessly.
Read moreTreatment of patients with low risk undifferentiated chest pain that can be safely managed in the community.
View detailsA range of guides to assist when using the iron infusion programme.