Creating Letter Templates within Vision 3

Before you can generate a referral letter, create your template in Vision 3.

There is a specific Vision Anywhere merge field - REFERRAL_Content, this takes the entry in the Referral letter content box and imports it into the letter.

For practice level working, any templates that are to be used with Vision Anywhere must be saved in P:\WORDPROC\TEMPLATE\VA_Referrals folder.

Shared Care Organisations need to forward the completed template to VATemplates@visionhealth.co.uk, the template is tested and uploaded to the appropriate cloud service.

Merge Fields

The following merge fields are recognised by Vision Anywhere:

Patient Data	Merge Field
Patient name	PATIENT_Title PATIENT_Forename1 PATIENT_Surname
Patient address	PATIENT_House PATIENT_Road PATIENT_Locality PATIENT_Town PATIENT_County PATIENT_Postcode
Patient date of birth	PATIENT_Date_of_Birth
Patient age	PATIENT_Age
Patient sex	PATIENT_Sex
Patient telephone number	PATIENT_Main_Comm_No
Patient NHS or CHI number	PATIENT_Current_NHS_Number PATIENT_CHI_Number
Patient’s usual GP	PATIENT_Usual_GP
Patient’s registered GP	PATIENT_Registered_GP
Patient’s registered practice	PATIENT_RegisteredPractice

Referral Data	Merge Field
Date of referral	SYSTEM_Date
Referring clinician	REFERRAL_Clinician
Referral urgency	REFERRAL_Urgency
Referral reason	REFERRAL_Snomed_Term or REFERRAL_Read_Term
Speciality	REFERRAL_NHS_speciality
Provider unit	REFERRAL_Provider
Referral letter content	REFERRAL_Content

 

Clinical Information	Merge Field
Active problems	PROBLEMS
Current repeat meds	REPEATS
Drug allergies	DRUG_ALLERGY
Non-drug allergies	NON_DRUG_ALLERGY