Ardens Bulletin | February 2026

The Ardens February Bulletin at a glance:

  • Refreshed Menopause & HRT resources & upcoming webinars 

  • Childhood Vaccinations resources & webinar recording

  • LTC Recall Changes

  • + more

♀️ Menopause & HRT Resources

We have launched our updated Menopause and HRT resources designed to support safer prescribing, faster consultations, and consistent coding across the full patient journey.

What's included: 

  • Step-by-step consultation templates

  • HRT assessment and counselling prompts

  • Built-in safety alerts and formulary guidance

  • Women’s Health Dashboard (Ardens Manager subscribers only)

How to access:

  • EMIS Web: Press F12 → Add ‘Women’s Health Menopause Launcher’ to your F12 or add data using template → ‘Menopause & HRT Ardens’

  • SystmOne: Press F12 → Add ‘Menopause & HRT’ template to your F12 or go to Autoconsultations/search bottom-left → ‘Menopause & HRT’

→ See our EMIS Web and SystmOne support articles for more information. 

Upcoming webinars:

We are hosting dedicated webinars exploring the new resources and how Ardens supports menopause management:

→ Register for the SystmOne webinar - Tues 10th March, 1–2pm
→ Register for the EMIS webinar - Tues 17th March, 1–2pm

Coming soon in Women’s Health:

  • Updated UKMEC guidance integration

  • Refreshed contraception consultation templates

💉 Childhood Vaccinations

Our vaccination resources help EMIS Web and SystmOne users quickly access vaccination templates, including childhood immunisations, flu, and pneumococcal vaccines, supporting accurate coding, faster documentation, and bulk invites and recalls.

How to access: 

  • EMIS Web: Press F12 → Add ‘Vaccination Template Launcher’ to your F12

  • SystmOne: Press F12 → Add ‘Childhood Vaccination’ template to your F12 or go to Autoconsultations/search bottom-left → ‘Childhood Vaccination’

→ Watch our recent webinars on Managing Childhood Vaccination Delivery for EMIS Web or SystmOne.

🔄LTC Recall Changes

We’re improving our LTC recall resources to support best practice reviews, increase efficiency, and standardise recall processes across Ardens.

What’s changing:

  • Expanding beyond QOF to include best-practice conditions

  • Streamlining the annual review process

  • Enhancing templates for data capture, decision support and risk stratification

  • Standardising search layouts across all recall areas (including vaccinations)

Rollout timeline:
We aim to release the new resources over the next few months. Existing LTC recall resources will remain available until April 2027 to support a smooth transition.

What this means for practices
No immediate action is required. Full training and webinars will be provided, and we’ll continue to share updates through the Ardens Bulletin.

🎓 Ardens Academy CPD Accreditation

We are pleased to announce that our Getting Started with Ardens Manager training course on Ardens Academy is now CPD-accredited. When you complete this course, you'll now receive points towards your CPD. 

→ Complete the Getting Started with Ardens Manager course here, and watch this space for more CPD-accredited courses coming soon!

🗓️ EMIS Version Dates

We have recently rolled out new version numbers for Ardens templates, protocols and documents which use a date-based version number to clearly show when a resource was published. This allows practices to easily confirm they are using the most recent version.

Format: v.YY.MM.DD
Example: v.26.02.14 (published on 14th February 2026)

🆕 Latest Ardens Manager features

🔎Site Search: Search across reports, dashboards, contracts and patients or enter an NHS number to instantly view all linked data.

📊Risk Stratification Tools: Segment and prioritise patient populations to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities using:

  • Whole-population approach

  • Condition-specific approach

  • Continuity-of-care approach

Including Bridges to Health, Johns Hopkins, QAdmission, QCancer, QRISK3, UCLPartners and more.

→ Catch up on our recent Risk Stratification webinar

🏥 Supporting community care

In addition to GP Practices, Ardens also supports a range of other units delivering community and Primary Care services, including hubs, care homes, prisons, community health services, pharmacies, dermatology services, and more.

→ Read our recent case study with Graham Young Pharmacy in Peterborough, to hear first-hand how Ardens makes a difference to community care. 

→ Email accounts@ardens.org.uk to find out more

UPCOMING EVENTS

If you're organising a Primary Care event in your area, we'd love to work with you by offering training or being on hand to answer questions and guidance on Ardens. Email marketing@ardens.org.uk to discuss how we can support. 

UPCOMING WEBINARS