Family Screen
The Family tab displays active members of the same family or household with identical address lines. From this screen you can select:
- Create a New Family - To split a patient off from the household to a new family or address.
- Amend Household - To make changes which apply to all members of the household, for example, address, phone number for home address, rural mileage, dispensing. Make the changes on the selected patient and then select Family and select Amend Household to update the whole household.
- Move to Another Family - Select to move the selected patient from the existing household to another family on the practice list.
or simply,
- Select a family member - Double click on a family member to view their registration record.Note - This does not possible if you have arrived at this screen from within Action menu options.
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If you check the View Inactive box under the tabs, this also displays any family members that have been transferred out previously.
Family Transfer - You only need use Registration - Family Details options if you carrying out one of the following options, described in Family Transfer:
It is quite possible, however, for the address of an individual member of a family to be edited so that it differs from other family members (use Edit Contact Numbers or Edit Address for this). They will still stay in the same family unless you use the option Move to another Family or Create new household.
To exit, finally, either choose one of the other Tabs, or see OK to save when adding new patient.
