What is the ‘Clinical Summary’?

The Clinical Summary is a high-level text description of the patient’s current status

The Clinical Summary is intended as a way to convey in outline text, the highest level of textual information about the patient’s condition or journey.

The clinical summary may include a list of pertinent diagnoses or problems, a summary of their recent treatment or other information.

The clinical summary is intended to be dynamic. It should be reviewed for pertinence and accuracy at each handover.

Since this is show to all users, information should be included here only if is relevant to all users. For team-specific information, team owners should instead set-up handover categories.

For more structured information about the patient that is relevant to all users in an organisation, administrators can set up organisational fields.

The Clinical Summary is displayed in:

Any user who can view the patient has permission to update the clinical summary. This includes all members of teams caring for the patient as well as all administrators.

You do not have to be currently responsible for the patient in order to update the clinical summary.

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