'Vulnerable' Patients List - Scotland

NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) are providing weekly updates to the 'Vulnerable' patient list. We are adding a Medical History entry to any Applied, Permanent or MHP Inmate Status patients that newly qualify for the list.

By default the History entry has:

• Read Term for Characteristic - 9d44.00 Potential infectious contact - Note the SNOMED CT Description is used for the terms automatically added to patient records
• Comment - High risk category for developing complications from Covid-19 - Added at NSS request.
• Priority – 1, meaning it is included in Emergency Care Summary (ECS) and Key Information Summary uploads.
• Consultation Type - Administration

Manually Recording At Risk Patients

If you have any patients in this vulnerable category that have not been identified with the term 9d44.00 for any reason, for example, newly registered patients, patients with new at risk diagnoses or patients prescribed drugs by a hospital, you can add the following Read term 9d44.00 Potential infectious contact manually to their record with a Priority of 1 and High risk category for developing complications from Covid-19 entered into Comments.

Viewing your 'Vulnerable ’ Patients

You can view the patients who have had the 9d44.00 clinical term added to their record by downloading and importing the latest Coronavirus Clinical Audit from here and reviewing the Patients flagged as increased risk for developing complications from Covid-19 infection (9d44) group:

The group has an active Reminder of ‘At significant increased risk from COVID-19’