Safety Netting

There are many ways in which safety netting may be managed within a practice and if your practice already has a working method, please do continue to use it.

The process offered below is optional for those practices that may not yet have a safety netting protocol in place.

This report has been created to provide a simple method of being able to monitor all referrals and test requests that have not been concluded, and uses the action date that exists in both entities to manage the current status.

The idea is that once a referral or request has been completed, simply delete the action date. While an action date exists the report will continue to display the results and highlight those over 14 days old. If you need to defer, simply update the action date within the entity. This also provides an audit trail of amendments.

The report will automatically filter out all blank action dates by default (although they can be filtered to show all for reference purposes) and will display 2 sheets for each type of Safety Netting; one will list all the search results and the other will show aggregated counts of the data to help establish the current status. Double-clicking on a total count will automatically produce an extracted detailed list of the actual count data.

The safety netting topics in the Excel workbook that can be monitored are:

  • All referrals using all read codes in the referral entity only, within date range (excluding Read codes 8HHt%, 8Hn%, 8HH8%, 8H7o%, 8H7h%, 8HlB%)
  • Cancer referrals using Read codes (8HHt%, 8Hn%) in the referral entity only, within date range
  • Urgent referrals using Read codes ( 8HH8%, 8H7o%, 8H7h%, 8HlB%) in the referral entity only, within date range
  • Test Requests using all read codes in the request entity only, within date range (excluding Read codes 4131%, 47K%, 5671%)
  • Direct access diagnostics using Read codes (4131%, 47K%, 5671%) in the request entity only, within date range

This provides an interim solution while the task manager app is in development. Once task manager is available in your practice this will be ideal for safety netting anything.

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