Quick Patient Search

At the top left of every screen is a Search field to find individual patients. If you click on this area, you can search for patients by Name or any of their hospital numbers. For example Smith,John will find all the patients called John Smith, smith,ja will find all patients called Smith with a first name starting with Ja and Smi will find all patients whose surname starts with Smi. The name search is not ‘fuzzy’ so Smith will not find Smythe but will find Smithe and Smithson.

For patients whose family name contains a space, enter the first part (before the space) followed by a space or comma then full or partial given name. E.g. for a patient named Al Hasmi, Mohammed enter AL MOH or AL, MOH or al moh.

Note: Searching by name is not case-sensitive.

Any of the patient’s hospital numbers including the NHS number can be searched for in the same field –- these require the full exact sequence. The NHS number may be entered with or without spaces.

Once the search has been performed, the patient or list of patients who fullfil that Search is displayed and clicking on a patient’s name in that list takes one to the Clinical Summary page for that patient.

Groups of patients can be found through other screens – for example the HD MDM screen shows HD patients which can be filtered based on, for example, Dialysis Unit, HD Schedule and/or Named Nurse.

Note that one can “bookmark” any given patient, who will thereafter appear in your Bookmarks list on your Dashboard.