Current Topic

Change

Receiving Patient Records

• This page is a new version of Newly Received Patient Records, with a clearer focus on incoming patient records.
• The new page incorporates information on requesting patient records, from the Transferring Patient Records page.

Transferring Patient Records

• New version of Transferring Patient Records, with a clearer focus on outgoing patient records. Information on requesting patient records has been moved to the Receiving Patient Records page.

Bullying, Discrimination, and Harassment

• New page combining optional topics Workplace Bullying, and Sexual Harassment. The new page includes discrimination, broadens harassment (including sexual harassment), and contains drop-down boxes with examples for each term.
• The page describes different ways that staff might deal with bullying, discrimination, or harassment, and provides links to external resources.

Stress and Well-being

• Page rewritten to focus on the practice's health and safety obligations, and best practice for managing stress and well-being.
• The new page contains a list of items suggesting what you might do to support staff well-being.

Mandatory and Discretionary Reporting

• Additional mandatory or discretionary reporting requirements now included on this page.
• Drop-down boxes contain information about each requirement and link to resources for more information. We have used language from the appropriate legislation, e.g. "may report", "must report", etc.

Lone Workers

• This is a new page to cover health and safety obligations for staff working alone, either at the practice or during an off-site/home visit.
• This page replaces the Home Visits and Staff Safety pages, which will be removed at rollout.
• We will remove the section about off-site/home visits at rollout for practices who don't do this.

Sexual Harassment

• Page removed and key information added to the new Bullying, Discrimination and Harassment page.This was an optional topic but you will receive the new page.

Workplace Bullying

• Page removed. Key information is being moved to the new Bullying, Discrimination and Harassment page. This was an optional topic but you will receive the new page.

Staff Safety

• Page removed and information about staff safety during off-site/home visits is now on the new Lone Workers page.
• This was an optional topic but you will still receive the new Lone Workers page.

Home Visits

• Page replaced by the new Lone Workers page, as part of your Health and Safety policy set.
• This was an optional topic but you will still receive the new Lone Workers page without the section about off-site/home visits.

Enrolment

• Moved the Transferring patient to another clinician at the practice section from the Transferring Patient Records page to the Enrolment page.

Repeat Prescriptions

• Altered information about repeat prescribing requests to be only for patients who have been reviewed in 12 months rather than six.