The Ethnicity Monitoring Additional Module allows practices and PCTs to evaluate the quality of recording of ethnic background for their practice population.

In the GP practice, the population is analysed according to the ethnic coding for each patient split into the 2001 Census ("16+1") categories, namely:

• White British
• Irish
• Other White
• White and Black Caribbean
• White and Black African
• White and Asian
• Other Mixed
• Indian
• Pakistani
• Bangladeshi
• Other Asian
• Caribbean
• African
• Other Black
• Chinese
• Other Ethnic Group
• Not stated / refused

Ethnicity recording will form part of the 2006 QOF, and you can get a head start on your 2006 QOF work using this module to check your level of ethnicity recording.

Statistical data from this module can also be aggregated at the PCT - see here for details.

The update is supplied as part of a Windows Installer Installation kit, which will update your practice installation of Contract Focus 1.1 and contains all of the available Additional Modules. You can download the kit from the main download page.