A health system communication and Q&A (login required) was cascaded earlier this week about incomplete GP registrations meaning some patients may have missed some NHS screening invitations.  This identified 5,261 people across 2,253 GP practices who are, or were, eligible for screening – an average of around 2 patients per practice.

Affected individuals have been added to the relevant screening IT systems and measures are in place to prevent future occurrences. NHS England has written directly to affected people to explain how to access screening. Practices do not need to do any proactive patient communication other than supporting with reactive queries and offering timely cervical screening catch up.

The communication asks GPs to check that ‘in flight’ and rejected registrations are resolved in GP Links Information about why a GP registration may be rejected is available here. A rejected registration can be found in the GP Links workflow. Where resubmission is required, practices should obtain the additional information or edit the registration on the clinical system and resubmit through GP Links. If no patients are listed for resolution in GP Links, no further action is required. A step-by-step guide on how to do this will be available here shortly.  Information about why a GP registration may be rejected is available here.

For further details, visit Primary Care Support England’s guidance on registration rejections.