About Practice Atlas
What Practice Atlas is
Practice Atlas is an operational assistant for primary care. General practice runs on incentive schemes, recall cycles and clinical-system searches that decide a large share of practice income, yet most of that machinery is unreadable in the places where the work actually happens. Atlas takes each of those pain points and answers it with a tool you can check:
Recalls turns your own EMIS exports into ready-to-send invitation lists, deduplicated and grouped the way clinics actually run. QOF gets the full 2026/27 estate: plain-English rules, a live points-and-payment Forecast, and an achievement scoreboard for EMIS. Local incentive schemes (LES) get the same treatment: payment searches that mirror the commissioner's own, plus case-finders that look for work done but never coded. X-Ray reads any EMIS search in plain English, including ones you bought elsewhere, and Forge writes a search from your answers to a few plain questions, and opens the ones you already have for editing, with no XML in sight. More is on the way, including GP contract specification tooling.
QOF is where Atlas started; it is one pillar now, not the whole story.
Finding money that's already yours
The quiet theme across all of it is income assurance: most practices lose income not by doing too little, but by failing to see what they've already done. Reviews happen and never reach a claim; codes land one concept away from the one that pays. Atlas is built to surface that gap and say what it's worth, so the practice can decide who to call and what to fix.
In 2026, this way of working recovered around £12,000 in QOF reclaims and roughly £600 per quarter on local schemes at a single UK practice. That is one practice's audited result, not a promise; what Atlas finds depends on your coding and claims position.
How the searches are verified
Every search is built from NHS England's official business rules (v51.1) or the commissioner's own scheme documents, never copied from another vendor's box. Before anything ships it is machine-checked, report by report, against the official business rules. When a check cannot pass, the search does not ship. When our reading knowingly differs from the published rules, the difference is written down in the open differences ledger on the Searches page, with the reasoning. A search you can audit is worth more than a search you're asked to trust.
Patient data never leaves your web browser, stored locally on your machine. You can export it to take with you to another machine and import it back. The only data we process is for login authentication and for compiling searches from your search definitions, never patient data, exactly as the Terms describe. We don't want your data; the product was built to keep it where it belongs, in your practice.
Who's behind it
Practice Atlas is built by a digital lead in the NHS who has experienced the pain points of primary care first hand, and who has spent years acting as a translation layer between the technical (complex data, systems and requirements) and the people doing the work: ordinary clinicians and admin staff. This website was produced to embody that translation layer, to humanise an inherently unhuman system, and to help primary care feel just a little more in control.
It assists; it never replaces clinical judgement. Every output is designed to be verified before you act on it, and the Terms say so in plain language.
Questions, problems, or something that looks wrong? support@practiceatlas.org.