Professional Categories

This article is part of the systems administration guide. You will require administration access to view the pages mentioned in this article.

All referring practitioners are found in CareRight under "Professional Contacts".

The length of the referral depends on the professional category of the Professional Contact (referring practitioner). A professional category is linked to a Group and the default referral length is inherited from the group.

Group

Referral Length

Surgeon

3 months

Physician

3 months

Anaesthetist

3 months

GP

12 months

Other Medical

n/a

Non Medical

n/a


  1. Click Administration.
  2. Select Professional Categories menu item.
    1. The Professional Categories screen will display with the following values.
  3. From here you can add a New category or edit an existing one.

Field

Description

Example

Name

This is the Professional Category Name

Dermatologist

Group

This is the group the category belongs to.

Surgeon

Edit (Button)

This button allows you to Edit a value


Delete (Button)

This button allows you to Delete a value