The PPR
The Standard service
As well as the features in the Basic service, by subscribing to the Standard service you’ll have access to the following additional information and features:
- Full practitioner profile information:
- Personal profile, including contact details
- NHS practice information:
- Name of hospital/practice
- Start date
- Job title
- Personal reference
- Private practice information:
- Name of all hospital(s)/practice(s)
- Start date(s)
- Type of care provided
- Patients treated
- Practice hours
- Scope of practice information
- Fitness to practise information
- Certifications
- Disclosure and Barring Service certification
- Dates of last and next appraisal
- Specialties and qualifications, including sub-specialties
- Medical secretary details
- Publications
- Bank details
- Medical indemnity insurance certification
- Insurer recognition status
- Ability to download the profile
- Push notifications of changes made to profiles
- Ability to view the changes made to a profile, with dates
- Push notifications of GMC warnings
- Ability to create and view notes about the practitioner
Download a profile
- Look for a practitioner – the steps on Looking for a practitioner are in the guide about the Basic service
- Highlight the chosen practitioner – their details will appear in the right-hand viewing pane
- If they have a PPR profile the option to Download Profile PDF will be available in the top right-hand side of the screen
- Click this and save where required
- To get back to the landing page click Advanced Search in the top right of the screen, then Clear Search
Notification of profile changes
When changes have been made to a profile you’re sent an email giving you the following information:
- The practitioner’s name and SP number
- A list of fields that have been updated
- The date the changes were made
To see exactly what’s been changed see Viewing profile changes.
Viewing profile changes
- Look for a practitioner – the steps on Looking for a practitioner are in the guide about the Basic service
- Highlight the chosen practitioner – their details will appear in the right-hand viewing pane
- If they have a PPR profile the option to View Changes will be available in the top right-hand side of the screen
- Click this to identify
- the fields that have been changed
- both the old and new values in that field
- the date the change was made
- Once reviewed you can click Clear Changes to clear the list
- To get back to the landing page click Advanced Search in the top right of the screen, then Clear Search
Notification of GMC warnings
We hold a republishing licence with the GMC and get a feed, Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays), of the List of Registered Medical Practitioners. If the GMC make a change to the List because a Fitness to Practise warning has been issued, you’ll be sent an email alerting you to this. A flag will also be shown on the landing page, see Alerts for more information.
Create notes
- Look for a practitioner – the steps on Looking for a practitioner are in the guide about the Basic service
- Highlight the chosen practitioner – their details will appear in the right-hand viewing pane
- Click Add Note on the right of the viewing pane and add your note in the box – you’ve got up to 1,000 characters
- Click Save when done
- The note will appear in a box under Notes History with the date and time you added it
- To get back to the landing page click Advanced Search in the top right of the screen, then Clear Search
View notes
- Look for a practitioner – the steps on Looking for a practitioner are in the guide about the Basic service
- Highlight the chosen practitioner – their details will appear in the right-hand viewing pane
- Notes will appear under Notes History – you can use the navigation button to the right of Add Note if there are a lot of them
- Hover over the required note box and the full text will appear in a tooltip
- Click the box and a new screen will open giving you:
- The full list of notes
- The date each one was added
- The name of the person who added it
- Click OK to close it
- To get back to the landing page click Advanced Search in the top right of the screen, then Clear Search
