Attachments

Referral Letters

To add a conventional referral letter, right click on the referral, select Edit and then select Letter . Once created the letter can then be moved into the Accompanying Documents section of RMD.

Correspondence

All letters added to Vision as correspondence are stored with extension .cli regardless.

Note there are certain rules for correspondence:

  • Word documents (.docx) are allowed as attachments so you can either send a referral letter, generated in the usual way from the Referral - Add screen, or send a Word document as an attachment. You can also write free text notes on Referral - Add to make your request or draw attention to something. Remember that the patient's clinical history is already on the spine so there is no need to repeat it.
  • You can send files formatted as .gif, .tif, .doc, xml, jpg:
Permitted formats for attachments for the NHS e-Referral Service Attachments formats not permitted for the NHS e-Referral Service

txt

mp3

xstt

dot

rtf

pdf

csv

tiff

htm

xml

dat

au

gif

html

giff

snd

doc

mpe

xsl

wmy

jpg

mpeg

bmp

wma

tif

mpg

png

 

jpeg

docx

 

 
  • You can send up to five attachments per referral booking.
  • Each attachment must be less than 1 mB.
  • The total attachments cannot exceed 5 mB.

Guidelines

A Guideline can be added as an attachment to an eReferral:

  1. From the Guideline toolbar select Attach .
  2. The Attachment - Add screen displays:

Note - This works best for guidelines with the standard black or blue on white background. Coloured guidelines do not display well. If a guideline has a category of Report, then it goes straight to the printer before you can use Attach . Should you wish to attach a report, make a copy of the report as a Local Guideline, from Select Guidelines, call up the report, select Copy, then at the Plan Header - Copy screen, type in a new Guideline Mnemonic (10 characters), and make sure the Category is Local Guideline. Add it to the Local Guideline or Report Index. When you select it from the Local Index, it displays on screen, giving you a chance to save it as an attachment.