Palliative Care Preferred Place of Death (HP100)

Purpose:

This protocol will:

1. help to ensure that preferred place of care nad preferred place of death has been discussed with patients

What does it actually do?

Where a patient is on the palliative care register, this protocol alert will highlight if they have had a discussion about preferred place of  death. The user can update the details by double clicking on  the protocol alert.

What does it look like?

The alert looks like this:

If the user hovers over it, further information is shown:

If the alert is double clicked then the information can be updated:

System Dependencies:

This relies on users coding activity accurately within the clinical system.

System Trigger

System Trigger: Load a patient

Run mode: Always run 

Enable trigger for: All clinical prescribers

Fitting your practice

Your practice team need to know that you are setting this alert live in your system

How to get it

This protocol is an base handy protocol and will automatically set live in your system.

Support Information

Development Log

VERSION NUMBER 1.0.0

Published 3/8/24
Release notes: Initial RP rebuild

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