Select a Patient Group

From Consultation Manager, you can select a Patient Group that has been created by a Search, with a group output or a Clinical Audit. This enables you to run through the group of patients, checking and applying any actions required without having to search for each patient.

To utilise the Patient Group utility in Consultation Manager:

  1. From Consultation Manager, select Consultation - Select a Patient Group.

  2. The Consultation Manager - Groups or Clinical Audit Search Browser screen displays:

  1. Select either:

     

  2. Double click on the group required, and an alphabetical list of the patients within that group displays.
  3. Optional, double click on a patient name in the middle column to display the patient's data that qualified them for this group, if appropriate, displays in the right-hand column:

  4. To run through the patients for checking or processing, highlight the patient at the top of the list, assuming you want to start at the beginning, and select Select Group Patient at the top of the group screen just under the title Patient Groups, not the one on the main toolbar.
  5. Process the patient as required, for example, adding history, updating immunisation records.
  6. Select Next Group Patient to select the next patient in the group, or display the list of the patients within the group by selecting Consultation - List Patient Group and selecting the group required, repeat steps 6 and 7 again.
  7. Continue until you have either:
    • Finished processing everyone in the group as required, or
    • If you need to come back later, or pass the task to another member of your team to finish processing, make a note of the last patient processed and start at that point on your return with step 6 above.
Training Tip - You can set Consultation Manager to open the correct screen when you select a patient, this can speed up processing patients within a group, see Setting up a fastpath for a group of patients.
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