Optimise Healthcare GroupPathway SOPs
Assessment & reports

12Post-Diagnostic

Owner
Admin, with clinician input
Trigger
A patient has had their post-diagnostic appointment, or has been moved here following an assessment.

Uses

C5Discharge

Referenced by

09ADHD Assessment Report

Purpose

Closing out the immediate post-assessment work - notes, resources, recommendations and the final letter.

Procedure

  1. Add the patient to the post-diagnostic tab with NHS number, name and appointment date.
  2. Record whether a diagnosis was given.
  3. Confirm resources and recommendations have been sent.
  4. Confirm the clinical note has been completed and is ready to be formatted.
  5. Complete the letter and send it to both the GP and the patient.
  6. Set Pathway complete = Yes and filter out.
  7. Where no diagnosis was given, the patient is discharged (C5).

Fields recorded

NHS number · name · diagnosis given (Y/N) · appointment date · resources and recommendations sent (Y/N) · note completed and ready to format (Y/N) · letter completed and sent to GP and patient (Y/N) · pathway complete

Notes

  • This tab tracks the post-diagnostic appointment and its outputs. The report writing itself is tracked separately on 09 and 10.

Open points

  • Whether resources sent differ for patients not given a diagnosis.

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