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Clinical narrative

An encounter is an interaction between a patient and a health care professional (HCP) that is recorded on the patient record. This can include:

• planned encounters - such as pre-arranged Appointments with a GP
• unplanned encounters - such as at an out of hours clinic and those unrecorded through appointment module(s)
• direct encounters - such as a face-to-face session with a GP
• indirect encounters - such as a GP reviewing and updating a patient record on receipt of some test results

Purpose

The purpose of supplying encounters within GP Connect is to allow a clinician to view a history of a patient’s interactions with a clinician or an HCP.

Sections and subsections

There is a single main section for encounters with no subsections.

Date filter

A date filter is applicable for the encounters section. Provider messages for a date filter can be found here.

Section content banner

Provider message(s) describing at a summary level how this section has been populated. Provider content messages can be found here.

Table construction requirements

Providers MUST adhere to the table construction requirements listed below:

• table header MUST be “Encounters”
• table columns MUST be ordered left-to-right (1..N)
• table content MUST NOT be truncated

Table columns

Providers MUST return all the columns as described in the table below, ordered by Date descending:

HTML view

The following content highlights the expected HTML tags and format providers MUST use when generating the HTML content:

<div>
   <h1>Encounters</h1>
   <div>
      <p>
         <!-- GP transfer banner -->
      </p>
   </div>
   <div>
      <p>
         <!-- Content banner -->
      </p>
   </div>
   <div>
      <p>
         <!-- Date banner -->
      </p>
   </div>
   <div>
      <p>
         <!-- Exclusion banner -->
      </p>
   </div>
   <table>
      <thead>
         <tr>
            <th>Date</th>
            <th>Title</th>
            <th>Details</th>
         </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
         <tr>
            <!-- the <tr>...</tr> element will repeat for each encounter-->
            <td>{{encounter.date}}</td>
            <td>{{encounter.entry}}</td>
            <td>{{encounter.details}}</td>
         </tr>
      </tbody>
   </table>
</div>
</div>