Adding a Hospital or NHS Trust

Add any NHS Trusts, hospitals and other local medical services or clinics to which you might make a referral. In addition, include their departments (eg ENT) and consultants (eg Dr Smith) (see Add Department, and Add a Consultant.

• Any hospitals with the Provider box ticked will then become a picklist on the Referrals-Add screen in Consultation Manager.
• In Registration, you can also record a patient's hospital number if the hospital is added in File Maintenance - Organisations.

1. From Control Panel, select File Maintenance and click on Organisation to list existing organisations.
2. To add a hospital either:
   • Select the yellow folder by NHS Trust or Hospital (or Community Unit, Directly Managed Unit, Family Planning Clinic) on the list of organisations so that it is opened then click on Add . This opens a new screen with NHS Trust or Hospital (or whatever variant you chose) already selected in Category.
   • Select the arrow to the right of Add and select NHS Trust or Hospital in Category.
   • Right click on NHS Trust or Hospital and select Add Organisation.