Discharge Notification

When a patient is discharged from a hospital, the discharge notice can be sent to your Gateway. These are received by the Gateway, but can only be processed by you checking your messages.

Note – It is good practice to check for messages in your Gateway daily. Messages are sent to the practice account so any member of staff that has Gateway rights can check and process all the messages.

Discharge Notification can be written to the patient record via the Gateway. To access the discharges through Vision:

1. From Consultation Manager, with or without a patient selected click on Summary – SCI Gateway or WCCG.
2. If you have selected a patient within Consultation Manager, any Discharge Notifications for that patient are displayed within the Gateway screen.

   If you have not selected a patient within Consultation Manager, and there are Discharge Notifications, a link displays at the top of the Home page. Click on the link to display. Discharges can also be displayed from the Messages menu within the Gateway.

3. Double click on the item required, the Discharge Notification displays.
4. Click Import to write back to the patient’s record within Vision.“The Discharge has been successfully imported into Vision” message displays.
5. Click on OK.
6. The Discharge Notification is filed to the patient’s record as an Attachment.

   Note - Discharge Notifications can be autofiled in Mail Manager by selecting this message type in Options - Autofiling or you can forward them for processing in DocMan using the attachment forward option. See Mail Manager on-screen help for further information.