Viewing patients with preadmissions

Depending on your permissions, you can view a list of patients with preadmissions from  Outpatients > Manage > Preadmissions.

In Nervecentre, To Come In (TCI), preadmission, and planned admission all refer to a patient who is due to come into the hospital for some reason.

Depending on your permissions, you can also view patients with preadmissions from  Inpatients > Expects.

Read about viewing a list of expected patients

Viewing patients with preadmissions on a mobile

You can't do this on a mobile.

Viewing patients with preadmissions on a desktop

  1. From  Outpatients > Manage > Preadmissions, select your search criteria.

    Use the table below to choose your search criteria. You must select a date range.

    Specialty

    		Select a specialty to search for preadmissions for that specialty.
    Admit From Select a date to search for patients expected after this date.
    Admit To Select a date to search for patients expected before this date.

  2. Select .

    A table appears.

    Read more about the table

  3. Double-click on a patient to view their preadmissions.

    From the bottom right of the screen, select to view that patient's preadmissions in another window. This allows you to view the list of patients with preadmissions, and a specific patient's preadmissions, at the same time.

    Read more about viewing a patient's preadmissions

From  Outpatients > Manage > Preadmissions, you can view patients with preadmissions.

Here you can select the criteria for your search.

To clear one search term, select next to the search term.

To clear your whole search, select next to .

Read more about viewing patients with preadmissions

Select to search.

Export the current results to an .xlsx file.

Drag column headings here to group rows by that heading.

Select next to the name of a group to remove it.

Read more about grouping rows

Shows the table of data returned by your search.

Select a column heading to sort the data by that heading.

Read more about sorting the contents of a column

Double-click on a patient to view their preadmissions.

Read more about viewing a patient's preadmissions

Show details

Select to view details about a preadmission.

Read more about viewing the details of a preadmission

Send letter

Select to send an ad-hoc letter to one or more patients.

Read more about sending ad-hoc letters

  1. From  Outpatients > Manage > Preadmissions, select your search criteria.

    Read more about viewing patients with preadmissions

  2. Select .

  3. Select one or more patients.

  4. Select Send letter.

  5. Select a letter you want to send.

    For example, a letter about the appointment.

    The following appear:

    • The name of the letter

    • The recipient of the letter

    • How the letter is delivered

    • Any attachments automatically added to the letter

  6. Optional: edit the name of the letter.

  7. To preview a letter:

    1. From Preview for, select a patient to preview the letter for that patient.

    2. Select Preview.

  8. To edit the letter, select Editor.

    Read more about the letter editor

  9. To add attachments to the letter:

    1. Select Attachments.

    2. Search for an attachment, or browse folders until you find an attachment.

    3. Select an attachment.

    4. Select Add Attachment.

    5. Select outside the dialogue box.

    6. To save the attachments you added, select Yes.

  10. To sign a letter, or to remove a signature from a letter:

    1. From Preview for, select a patient to preview the letter for that patient.

    2. Select Preview.

    3. Select Sign off.

    4. Select an option.

      • To sign the letter with your name, select Sign.

      • To sign the letter for someone else, select Sign as, then select their name.

      • To remove a signature from the letter, select Un-sign.

  11. To send the letters, select Send.

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