Ardens Bulletin | August 2026

The Ardens August Bulletin at a glance:

  • Latest vaccination resource updates

  • Support for new QOF domains

  • Ardens Manager Features: Companion Mode, Appointment Reporting, NHS Integrations & National Data Sets


VACCINATIONS

💉Latest Vaccination Resources

Following our last bulletin, announcing the launch of our refreshed vaccination resources, we have now published further tools to support practices in delivering routine and seasonal vaccinations.


  • Joint Seasonal Influenza and COVID-19 Searches: 

    • EMIS Web: Available in the Reporting > Ardens > 3.16 Vaccinations folder. If you don't yet have access, please download from the portal. 

    • SystmOne: Available in Reporting > Ardens > Vaccinations | Seasonal.

→ View Joint COVID & Seasonal Influenza support article


  • Seasonal Influenza Templates

    • EMIS Web: Access via the Vaccinations template launcher or search for the relevant Ardens vaccination template.

    • SystmOne: Access via Auto Consultations > Ardens Vaccinations > open the relevant vaccination template or add to your F12 favourites.


  • Seasonal Influenza Protocols: 

    • EMIS Web: Watch this short video for instructions on how to edit the protocol. If you don't yet have access, please download from the portal.

    • SystmOne: Add the "Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Administration 2026/27" protocol to your F12 favourites. No manual protocol editing is required.

→ View Seasonal Influenza support article


Next Week's Seasonal Influenza Webinars

Join us next week for our dedicated Seasonal Influenza webinars where we'll guide you through how Ardens resources support practices to deliver each stage of the vaccination process:

→ SystmOne: Weds 2nd September, 1-2pm - Register here
→ EMIS Web: Thurs 3rd September, 1-2pm - Register here

 

NATIONAL CONTRACTS

🎯Supporting QOF Domains

With QOF 2026/27 delivery underway, we know many practices have questions around some areas of QOF, including the Obesity and Heart Failure domains. To assist practices, we've developed support articles, FAQs, and webinar recordings covering these topics in detail.

→ Obesity: Support article (including FAQs) and webinar recordings

→ Heart Failure: Support article (including FAQs) and webinar recordings


ARDENS MANAGER UPDATES

🖥️ Companion Mode

We’ve launched Patient Companion Mode through the Ardens Desktop, making it even easier to use Ardens Manager alongside your clinical system.

Open a patient in your clinical system and quickly open the same patient in Ardens Manager, giving you access to additional patient information, alerts and actions without having to search for them again.

This makes it easier to spot opportunities during the consultation, including outstanding QOF and locally commissioned service activity, helping improve patient care and maximise income.

→  View Ardens Desktop support article

🗓️ Appointment Reporting

Breakdown by Appointment Status

A new data breakdown allows users to visualise report data by appointment status. For applicable reports, use the 'Show status' toggle to display breakdown data for Complete, Unused, Booked, DNA, Blocked and Cancelled. The proportion of each status can then be viewed across other breakdown charts such as Risk or Staff, and statuses can also be used as a filter.

Timeline Filters

Users can now filter reports by the date an activity took place, using the new Timeline filter category. Choose This Month, Last 12 Months, or a custom date range. This helps practices obtain time-based activity reports (such as Extended Access appointment submissions) and easily see total appointment counts for a selected period.

🔗NHS Integrations

PDS, GP Connect and Reasonable Adjustment Flags features are now available to all users in Ardens Manager and can be found in the Patient View. Users must have patient-level data access enabled to use these features.

  • PDS: Useful for maintaining up-to-date data for the patient in their record, and ensuring this is used in communication.

  • Reasonable Adjustment Flags: Prompts clinicians to make appropriate adjustments for the consultation, and ensures they're contacted in the most appropriate manner.

  • GP Connect: Quick access to the patient record supports safer clinical decision-making.

→ View National NHS Services support article

📊National Data Sets

GP Appointments Data (GPAD)

The GPAD dashboard has been updated with 3 new reports to help with the 2026-27 GP Contract requirement for same-day appointments for clinically urgent patients.

GP Patient Survey

The 2026 GP patient survey results have been released and updated on the dashboard. All results are comparable to the 2 previous years, except for a new report on whether the respondent served in the UK armed forces.

→ View the National Data Sets support article


UPCOMING ARDENS WEBINARS


RECENT WEBINAR RECORDINGS

View all recordings on the Knowledge Base, including our latest webinars:

  • QOF for Clinicians

  • Obesity QOF Domain

  • Heart Failure QOF Domain

  • Building a QOF Delivery Plan

  • Introduction to QOF

  • Getting Started with Ardens Clinical​​​​​​​


EDUNUG WEBINARS

EduNUG webinars are delivered by Ardens exclusively for members of EMIS National User Group, and are designed to support best practice and practical use of EMIS. For full details on webinars and membership, please visit the EduNUG website.