File Maintenance (Control Panel)

File Maintenance is divided into three main sections:

• Staff - the GP partners and other GPs in the practice, the nursing and administrative staff who are employed within your practice, and the attached community and other staff. You can enter personal and professional details, including their role within the practice, (eg partner, physiotherapist, administrator), and specialty interests of GPs, etc; identifiers, such as HA/HB/CSA codes, GP codes; and addresses. For each staff member, you are able to enter identifying codes, such as GMP codes, GMC codes and GP Codes.
• Organisations - Organisations, Departments, and Persons outside of the practice who are attached to Departments. This includes Health authorities, Health Boards, hospitals and their departments and consultants (for referral purposes), NHS Trusts, PCTs, Pharmacies, Residential Institutes, Drug Manufacturers (to enter batch numbers of practice administered therapy), insurance companies. For each organisation, department and person, you are able to enter identifying codes, such as consultant codes, residential institute codes etc.
• Practice - Main surgery details and any branch surgery. Printed prescriptions contain the main surgery details and HB\CCG.
• Staff Groups - see Mail Maintenance (Control Panel).