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A complete toolkit for your practice and PCN.

Free, instant tools built for England primary care — from appointment and funding analysis to QOF, CQC readiness and workforce. Grouped by topic so your team can jump straight to what's needed. No login required.

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Register your practice for free to bring QOF, workforce, access, finance, contract and CQC data into a single live dashboard — benchmarked to national figures with an at-a-glance health score.

Appointments & Access · 7 tools

Appointment activity, access and demand

Benchmark appointment activity, analyse online consultation and telephony demand, plan enhanced access and forecast where pressure is heading.

GP Appointments (GPAD)

Benchmark any practice or PCN's monthly appointment activity from NHS Digital's Appointments in General Practice data — set against its PCN, Sub-ICB and England, with percentile ranks, trends and leaderboards.

  • GP access, modes & staff-mix breakdown
  • DNA rates & 2026/27 clinically-urgent view
  • Booking waits & GP+OC combined metrics
  • National percentile ranks & trends
Open Dashboard

GP Patient Survey (GPPS)

Benchmark any practice or PCN against its PCN, ICS and England across the headline GP Patient Survey measures — overall experience, access, appointment wait, consultation quality and continuity, with national leaderboards.

  • Headline experience & access scores
  • Practice vs PCN / ICS / England benchmarks
  • National, ICS & PCN ranking leaderboards
  • Strengths & areas to improve
Open Dashboard

GPAD Appointments Analyser

Upload your NHS GPAD CSV and instantly see appointment KPIs, DNA rates, data quality issues, and a ready-to-paste board narrative.

  • Clinically urgent, routine & DNA KPIs
  • RAG status and suggested actions
  • Data quality flags and row counts
  • Week-on-week and month-on-month trends
Open Analyser

Online Consultations Dashboard

Analyse online consultation demand, submission patterns, and national benchmarking for any GP practice in England.

  • Monthly volume trends & rate per 1,000
  • 8am rush analysis & hourly patterns
  • National / ICB / PCN benchmarking
  • Supplier market share over time
Open Dashboard

Digital Front Door

One cross-dataset scorecard of a practice or PCN's digital access — NHS App, online consultations and online/video appointments combined into a benchmarked digital-maturity score.

  • Digital Front Door score & national rank
  • Per-channel cards with percentiles
  • Digital profile radar
  • Links through to each deep-dive tool
Open Dashboard

NHS App Usage Dashboard

Benchmark any practice or PCN's NHS App engagement and digital self-service from NHS England's usage data — set against its PCN, Sub-ICB and England.

  • Active uptake among patients aged 13+
  • Login activity & engagement intensity
  • Repeat prescriptions & health-record views
  • Enabled-feature view & PCN comparisons
Open Dashboard

Cloud-Based Telephony Dashboard

Benchmark GP practice telephony — inbound, missed and abandoned calls, callbacks, wait times and call durations — against national, ICB and PCN averages.

  • Missed & abandoned call rates vs national
  • National, ICB & PCN rankings
  • Per-1,000-patient demand & leaderboards
  • Volume-weighted "calls saved" impact
Open Dashboard

Enhanced Access Planner 2026/27

Model your PCN's session delivery and check it meets the NHS England 60-minutes-per-1,000-patients-per-week specification.

  • Required hours by registered list size
  • Session builder — define your own model
  • Net capacity after DNA/buffer allowance
Open Planner

Demand Forecaster

Detailed demand-capacity forecasting for a GP practice using GP appointments, online consultations, cloud telephony and workforce snapshots in one model.

  • Combined demand index from 4 data sources
  • Capacity index from NWRS workforce mix
  • 1, 3 and 6 month gap projection with RAG
  • Driver-level insights and confidence score
Open Forecaster
Funding & Finance · 7 tools

Funding intelligence, budgets and reimbursement

Understand where your money comes from and model staffing costs, reimbursement and funding splits for practices and PCNs.

NHS Payments — Funding Intelligence

Funding intelligence on a GP practice or PCN's NHS payments — set against its PCN, Sub-ICB, NHS Region, similar practices and England on a per-weighted-patient basis, with interactive charts, percentile ranks and league tables.

  • Global Sum, QOF & PMS core funding
  • Enhanced services, vaccinations & premises
  • PCN payments & category breakdown
  • 5 years of trend, practice & PCN league tables
Open Dashboard

ARRS Calculator 2026/27

Enter your ARRS allocation and WTEs for each role to see your spend breakdown and remaining balance instantly.

  • All 20 Standard ARRS Roles
  • Mental Health Practitioners (Bands 4–8a)
  • National, Inner & Outer London rates
Open Calculator

IIF Calculator 2026/27

Project your PCN's IIF income for 2026/27. Enter your achievement against HI-03 and CAN-04 to see your projected income and gap to maximum.

  • HI-03: LD health checks
  • CAN-04: Lower GI 2WW FIT
  • Live income projection with sliders
  • Export to PDF or Excel
Open Calculator

PCN Funding Split 2026/27

Enter your member practices' list sizes to see how NHS England PCN funding breaks down across the PCN.

  • Core income (raw & adjusted)
  • ARRS & NPP shares
  • Enhanced Access & Cap & Access
Open Calculator

GP Reimbursement 2026/27

Look up your practice's personalised funding entitlement under the new GP Reimbursement Scheme (Section 14A GMS SFE).

  • Route A — New salaried GP
  • Route B — Additional sessions
  • Route C — CASP/PCN Test Sites
Check Entitlement

Payroll Forecaster

Estimate the employer-cost impact of pay rises across your workforce, including NI and pension.

  • Up to 5 staff in one scenario
  • NLW uplift and custom pay-rise options
  • NHS pension toggle per staff member
Open Forecaster

Practice Stock Take

A practice-based medicines stock workflow covering opening count, delivery logging, usage, adjustments and end-of-month close with expected-versus-actual variance.

  • Opening stock check by medicine line
  • Delivery, usage and adjustment logging
  • GTIN lookup with dm+d support
  • Month-end variance view for assurance
Open Stock Tool
Contract, QOF & Prevalence · 5 tools

Contract delivery, QOF income and prevalence

Track Core Contract and Network DES delivery, estimate QOF value, and review how local prevalence shapes your income.

GP Contract Services Dashboard

Explore Core GP Contract indicators and vaccination programme activity for any GP practice in England, benchmarked against PCN, ICB and national figures.

  • Core indicators as % vs PCN, ICB & national
  • 15 vaccination programmes, monthly activity
  • Indicator-level dose breakdowns
  • Sourced from NHS CQRS/GPES 2025/26
Open Dashboard

PCN DES Dashboard

Track Network Contract DES achievement across Cancer, SMRs & Medicines Optimisation, and Tackling Health Inequalities — with practice vs ICB vs national benchmarks.

  • Cancer care review (CAN04)
  • Structured medication reviews (SMR01A–D, SMR03)
  • LD & SMI annual health checks (HI03, HI21)
  • Practice vs ICB vs national comparison
Open Dashboard

QOF Income Reference 2026/27

Estimate your practice's maximum QOF income for 2026/27, adjusted for your list size (CPI) and local disease prevalence (ADF).

  • CPI-adjusted income per indicator
  • ADF prevalence adjustment where available
  • Domain summary breakdown
  • What's changed in 2026/27
View Reference

Prevalence Explorer

Compare practice-level QOF prevalence against national benchmarks and review disease-area variation quickly.

  • Practice-level prevalence view
  • National comparison benchmark
  • Condition-by-condition breakdown
  • Export options from the live tool
Open Explorer

QOF Achievement Tracker Coming Soon

Track QOF achievement against your registered list and annual targets — see where you're on course and where you need to focus.

  • Domain and indicator breakdown
  • Current vs projected achievement
  • List-size adjusted targets
  • Prioritised focus areas
Coming Soon
Compliance & Safety · 4 tools

CQC readiness and patient safety

Self-assessment checklists to prepare for CQC inspection, track inspection-search risk, and stay on top of national safety alerts.

CQC Readiness Checker

Work through every CQC single assessment framework quality statement, record RAG status, and export a board-ready PDF summary.

  • All 33 quality statements in one place
  • Red / amber / green tracking with notes
  • PDF export for practice discussions
Open Checker

Returning to Good & Outstanding

Prepare for CQC's focused reassessment programme targeting GP practices with Good or Outstanding ratings from 2017–2022.

  • All 10 non-clinical quality statements
  • Inspector-informed sub-questions
  • PDF preparation summary export
Open Checker

CQC Inspection Searches

Upload your Ardens CQC searches export and track risk percentages across all inspection domains, with trend history and PDF reports.

  • Import single- or multi-practice CSV exports
  • Trend tracking across snapshots with risk %
  • Module summary & practice overview PDF exports
Open Dashboard

Safety Alerts

A consolidated feed of NHS safety alerts — MHRA drug & device recalls, national patient safety alerts, field safety notices and more — updated every 4 hours.

  • Aggregated from 6 official NHS sources
  • Searchable and filterable by source
  • RSS feed for direct clinical system integration
View Alerts
Population & Workforce · 5 tools

List sizes, workforce and public health

Explore registered and weighted populations across England, track workforce capacity, and review public health profiles.

Registered Patients & List Size

Track the monthly registered list size and full age/sex demographics of any GP practice or PCN, benchmarked against PCN, Sub-ICB, ICB, region and England (NHS Digital PDS data).

  • Monthly list-size trends, peaks & growth leaderboards
  • Population pyramid, ageing & age-structure KPIs
  • England & regional choropleth maps + national benchmarking
Open Dashboard

Practice List Sizes

Browse registered, weighted, and adjusted list sizes for every GP practice in England, with ICB averages.

  • All three list size types
  • Filter by practice name, PCN, or ICB
  • ICB average breakdown
View List Sizes

PCN List Sizes

Browse registered, weighted, and adjusted list sizes for every PCN in England, with national and regional averages.

  • All three list size types
  • Filter by NHS Region or ICB
  • Regional average breakdown
View List Sizes

NWRS Workforce Evidence

Explore monthly NHS Digital workforce snapshots for any GP practice, with WTE trends, role mix, capacity assumptions, peer benchmarks, and stability flags.

  • GP, clinical and admin WTE trends
  • Patients per WTE national ranking
  • PCN, ICB and similar-practice benchmarking
Open Dashboard

Fingertips NHS Profiles

Explore England public health profiles from OHID Fingertips — access, cardiovascular, and diabetes indicators for any GP practice or England overall.

  • Access & patient-experience indicators
  • Cardiovascular risk and outcomes data
  • Diabetes care processes and targets
  • Compare your practice vs England or PCN
Open Explorer

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