Recipe Name: | Dementia Patients and Carers |
Rationale: | Knowing the carer for a patient with dementia is important and will assist the practice in their care for the patient |
Target: | The number of patients with Dementia who have a carer recorded |
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In this recipe the steps describe how to find patients with a carer recorded in their record. By selecting the 'not recorded' part of the graph you can reverse this and find patients without a carer recorded! Currently only Best Practice users can record a patient's carer status so for users of other clinical systems this report is not available. |
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Report Steps
To Export Patient List to Microsoft Excel:
1. Click on the “Export Icon” at the top of the Patient Reidentification window.
2. Click on “Excel”
3. Choose a file name and a location to save to (eg. Create a folder C:/ClinicalAudit/CAT Patient FollowUp)
4. Click “Save”
The steps above will produce a list of patients with contact details in MS Excel which can then be used to:
1. Go back through the individual patient records in the GP Clinical Desktop System (CDS) and update known records
2. Phone patients to update their record
3. Produce a mail merge to recall patients for follow up