Information from the GP System

• Demographic data
• medication, and allergies.

How it is completed

Information automatically uploaded unless the patient opts out of this.

What information to include

• Uploaded automatically unless switched off at individual patient record level in GP system.

Information from the GP System

• Medical diagnoses
• key contacts equipment at home
• palliative care information, and
• resuscitation status.

How it is completed

Active medical diagnoses are automatically uploaded into KIS. Note that EMIS users will need to refresh the KIS after adding any new diagnoses.

All other parts involve tick boxes or have short free-text fields.

What information to include

• Check the medical diagnoses to ensure that they are relevant.
• Information about adults with incapacity, Power of Attorney, key family members and other contacts (with their phone numbers) can be really useful.
• Whether the person is on the palliative care register and whether there is a DNACPR form.