An Overview of Consultation Manager

All clinical data for patients is recorded in Consultation Manager.

1. Select your patient from either the patient register or an Appointment list.

2. Open and/or specify a consultation type if required, this depends on your settings.

3. The Patient Record screen displays. This screen can be tailored to how you want to use it, ranging from a simple data entry, a repeat issues view, or a sophisticated problem orientated view.

   You can optionally set a Patient Preview screen to display an overview of the most important patient data on one page.

   The navigation pane summarises the clinical data that already exists for this patient. You can filter data to see, for example, all the test results, or entries made at a Well Woman clinic by selecting from the navigation pane. Every data entry is listed chronologically on the Journal tab of Patient Records.

4. Record clinical data:
   • As Medical History, see Adding a Medical History Entry for details.
   • As a Structured Data Area entry (SDA's), for example,Test Results, Asthma Register, Cervical Cytology, rather than a generalised Medical History. This makes it easier to retrieve relevant information when accessing the patient record and from searches and audits, see Structured Data Areas for details.
   • Using a right mouse click option, for example, Add, Edit and View.
   • Using Vision+, a powerful QOF management and practice protocol tool, displays alerts for missing patient information and allows you to quickly enter data. There are also Vision+ full data entry templates. See the Vision + Help Centre for full details.
   • Using the Therapy screens, see Adding and Printing an Acute Prescription, Adding a Repeat Prescription and Issuing Repeat Prescriptions.
   • By adding or actioning Reminders (yellow post-it's), these can be generated by Clinical Audits and can be set to display when a patient is selected, see Reminders for details.

   • By adding a Recall. Groups of patients due recall can be created from Search and Reports, and recall letters can be sent from Recalls and Patient Groups, see Adding a Recall for details.

You can search and report on data recorded in Consultation Manager from Search and Reports, see the Search and Reports Help Centre for details.

Monthly statistics can be run from the Clinical Audit, see Clinical Audit Help Centre for details.

Mail Manager receives and sorts incoming mail into GP's mailboxes, depending on your settings, incoming mail can be filed in to the patients' record automatically, see Mail Manager Help Centre for details.