Registration Status

A Registration Status is a mandatory entry on the Registration - Personal Details (initial) screen.

When a new patient is registered, the default registration status is:

• Permanent - For non-Registration Links.
• Applied - For Registration Links practices. This is the temporary registration status for patients joining the practice permanently. This is automatically updated to Permanent once the registration is approved by your TP. It is possible to set a practice-wide default registration status from Control Panel - Staff configuration.

If the patient is registering as one of the temporary or special care categories, select as required:

• Permanent patients:
  • Applied
  • Permanent
• Patients for specific care only:
  • Child Health Surveillance
  • Contraceptive
  • Maternity
  • Minor Surgery
• Temporary patients:
  • Temporary resident < 16 days
  • Temporary resident 16 days to 3 months
• Emergency and Immediately Necessary Treatment:
  • Emergency Treatment
  • Immediately Necessary Treatment
• Private or Referred
  • Private
  • Referred (Channel Islands - or a quick way to register patients).
• Inactive statuses:
  • Transferred Out - not available as a selection when adding a new patient, this registration status is used for patients who have removed or died (see "Patients who die or remove out of practice area").

You may also choose from:

• GP with Special Interest
• HMP Inmate - prisoner
• Minor Injury Clinic
• Visitor (EC111) - from EU country
• Walk-In Centre
  Note - For Registration Linked practices, if you are editing a patient's registration status, you cannot switch from an active Applied or Permanent status to another status, such as Temporary Resident, without HA approval.
  See Edit Registration Status to edit the registration status or Change of GP within the practice - Internal Transfer for patients move out of the practice area or for those patients who die.