Adding a Consultant to a Hospital/Department

You can add a person to either a:

• Department - For example, a consultant, or

• Organisation - For example, a social worker attached to a Social Services organisation. Persons attached directly to an organisation are not available for selection from Consultation Manager - Referral - Add.

To add a consultant (person) to a department, or directly to an organisation:

1. From Control Panel, select File Maintenance - Organisation to list existing organisations.

2. Select Expand by organisation type required and then Expand on the organisation if you want to add the person to a department.
3. Either:
   • Right click and select Add Person, or
   • Use the list by Add and select Add Person:
4. The Person Details screen displays:

   

   Complete as follows:

   • Organisation - Completes automatically based on the organisation you select.
   • Department - If selected, completes automatically based on the department you select.
   • Role - Crucial to whether their name can be merged into a referral letter or not. Select Consultant for a hospital consultant.
   • Surname, Forename, and Title - Use upper and lower case for the names. All three options can be merged into a referral letter.
   • Initials - Mandatory, used as an identifier.

5. Under Main Address, select Add, complete the details as appropriate and select OK to save, see Adding Addresses and Contact Numbers for details.

6. If required, select the Identifiers tab and select Add.
   Note - You should enter a consultant code for consultants, it is 8 characters, six numeric characters (their GMC code) with the addition of the C prefix and a last check digit. It can used as a merge field on referral letters. If you adding a nurse attached to a department, you can add their NMC PIN number in Identifier.
7. Select OK to save.