Recording Consent
Consent is NOT mandatory but is recommended. The different consent statuses should be recorded on the template and are subsequently reported in Vision+ Practice Reports. The practice has the final decision on whether or not to include a patient in an extract.
There are currently no specific clinical terms for recording FGM consent, so the clinical term 9Nd - Obtaining Consent is used, along with a free-text comment to indicate the patient's preference. The three potential consent statuses are:
- Consent - The patient consents to identifiable information being uploaded to the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP).
- Dissent - The patient does not consent to patient identifiable information being uploaded to Clinical Audit Platform (CAP).
- Absent - GP2GP does not pick up the specific free-text entries recorded against consent, so new patients to the practice with FGM clinical terms are reported by the module as having consent absent with relation to the extract.
To record a patient's consent:
Reminder - The consent option is only available provided the patient has an FGM clinical term
- Select the Consent line on the FGM Template.
- Select Codeset.
Consent - Codeset
- The Codeset screen displays. Select Apply alongside the clinical term 9Nd - Obtaining Consent, and select the relevant freetext comments. Note - You can also change the date, priority and episode type, if appropriate.
- Select OK.
- Alternatively, if you want to quickly add the clinical term without displaying the Codeset screen, select
from the Consent line and add your free-text comments.
- Select OK.Note - Where no free-text comment is selected, this displays in the Vision+ Reports as consent absent.
