Viewing due and overdue assessments

Your organisation can configure assessments to become:

  • Due after a predefined period of time

  • Overdue if the assessment isn’t completed after it becomes due

Your organisation can configure assessments to repeat if an assessment reaches a certain outcome. For example, your organisation might make you repeat an assessment before the due date if the outcome of the assessment is a high MUST Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool. MUST is a 5 step screening tool used to identify whether adults are malnourished. score.

Read more about assessment outcomes

You can view the assessments that are due and overdue.

Viewing due and overdue assessments on a mobile

For patients attending UEC Urgent and Emergency Care. In Nervecentre, this covers 'ED areas' and SDEC., or patients who are admitted, you can view if they have due or overdue assessments from your patient list.

  1. View your patient list.

    • On iOS, select Patients.

    • On Android, select > Patients.

  2. View a list of options.

    • On iOS, select Show.

    • On Android, select and hold a patient's name.

  1. Select Assessments Due.

    Assessments that are due show .

    Assessments that are overdue show .

  1. Find the patient's record.

  2. Find Assmnts.

    Read more about Assmnts

Assmnts shows the number of completed assessments with a red RAG A red/amber/green ‘traffic light’ rating system. It can denote progress with various milestones rating.

Below the number is the due date of the assessment that is soonest.

  • If no assessments are due, the date is shown in grey.

  • If at least one assessment is due, and the date is shown in green.

  • If at least one assessment is overdue, and the date are shown in red.

For example, there are three assessments that are due on the 10 January, and one that is due on the 1 January. Out of the four assessments, three are repeat assessments, and two of the previous assessments had a red RAG rating. Below 'Assmnts' is '2' and ' 01 Jan'.

Viewing due and overdue assessments on a desktop

  1. Open the patient's record.

    • From  Inpatients, select Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail.

    • From  Outpatients, select Clinic List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail.

  2. From Clinical, find Assessments.

    The due date and time is shown next to the assessment.

    • The due date and time are shown in a grey box if the assessment is not due.

    • The due date and time are shown in a green box if the assessment is due.

    • The due date and time are shown in a red box if the assessment is overdue.

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