Recording an Initial Palliative Care Plan
To record an initial palliative care plan:
- From Consultation Manager, select List - ECS Summary Management - Palliative Care Summary.
- Select Add:
- The Palliative Care Plan - Add screen displays:
- Complete as required:
- Date of Establishing Plan - Defaults to today’s date, change if appropriate.
- Clinician - Defaults to the clinician logged in, if a member of staff is logged in the default is either the Usual or Registered GP.
- Read Term - Defaults to 8CS..Agreement of care plan.
- Date of Agreement - Enter the appropriate date.
- Last ECS Upload Date - Completes automatically.
- GP to Sign Death Cert - Tick if appropriate.
- Death Cert Notes - Enter notes if appropriate.
- Palliative Care Review Date - Enter the date for a review.
- Review Date Notes - Enter review notes if required.
- Notes - Enter notes if required.
- Select OK to save and close.
- The Palliative Care Plan details display, in a truncated form, at the top of the Palliative Care Summary tab.
Note - To print this topic select Print in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.