You can also record a relationship that a patient has with a professional contact that, or for an informal referral (non-medical). This could be the relationship between the patient and their GP, where their GP referred them to the specialist that you have received a medical referral from.
You can record two types of relationship here:
- A LMO relationship (click New LMO).
- Correspondence Only relationship (click New Contact).
To record a relationship, follow these steps:
- Search for the patient that the referral is for (Patients → Search → Show).
- From the patient's record, select Referrals from menu.
- Any existing referrals will be visible on the screen, check that the referral hasn't already been added, if it hasn't proceed to the next step.
- Click New LMO or New Contact.
- Select a Practitioner from the list.
- Complete the fields using the table below for reference.
- Click Create Referral.
Field Name | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Details | ||
Practitioner | The name of the professional contact that the referral/relationship is with. This is taken from the professional contacts list in CareRight. The practitioner does not need to have a provider number to appear in this list. | Dr Bob Jones
|
Medical Provider | The associate/provider in your organisation that the referral/relationship details were sent to | Dr John Smith |
Referred On | Date that the referral was written/made or when the relationship commenced | 13/04/2015 |
Notes | A notes field. |
|
Reference | This is a short reference field. | |
| Correspondence | ||
Recipient Status | Indicates whether this practitioner is the: •Original Recipient (OR) •Carbon Copy (CC) •Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) •No copy For letter correspondence for this referral.
| Original Recipient |
