What Staff Should Be Added?

Any staff that are likely to use Vision 3 to record, view or report on any patient data must be added as a user. This includes:

• GPs - Including senior partner, partners, salaried GPs, GP registrars, locums, GP retainer, Assistant, Associate. If the practice has no partners but only salaried GPs, one salaried GP should be designated as senior partner, see Adding Doctors for details.
• Nurses - See Adding Nurses for details.
• Administrative staff - See Adding Non-Medical Staff Members for details.
• Attached community staff - See Adding Other Clinical Staff, Adding Paramedics, and Adding Pharmacists for details.

For each member of staff, you can enter:

• Personal details - Including name and preferred name where appropriate.
• Professional details - Including role within the practice.
• Identifiers - Including TP/HB/CSA codes, GMC and GMP codes for GPs.
• Addresses - Including an NHS email address.
  Note - it is mandatory for each GP record to have at least one GP code for a local TP/HB/CSA entered in Staff Identifiers.

Staff external to the practice, for example, consultants at the local hospital, or a social worker from the local Social Services, are held in Organisation - Person, see Adding a Consultant to a Hospital/Department for details.