You can directly access smart referral forms for all the cancer pathways in your area. These are centrally updated and pre-populated to save you time and will be automatically safety-netted onto the C the Signs Dashboard.
Step 1: Open Referral Forms
- Click on the first button of the C the Signs toolbar and select ‘Referral Forms’.
Step 2: Select Form
- Select the referral form you need from the drop-down menu.
If there is more than one option for referral in your local area, switch between NHS Hospital Trusts at the top of the page to find the urgent cancer referral form you are looking for.
Step 3: Complete the Form
- The relevant referral form template will load. C the Signs will pull through relevant information from the patient’s notes into the form.
- Complete the form and add or edit clinical information as needed.
- Send a patient information leaflet to the patient by text, email or download & print.
- Once you have completed the form, select ‘Generate referral form’.
Some referral forms will contain mandatory fields, highlighted in pink. These must be completed before you can save the form into the notes.
Step 4: Review, Save & Safety-net
- Add any clinical information and choose which clinical codes are saved into the medical record.
- When you are happy click on 'Save to patient's notes and the practice dashboard'. The patient will now be safety-netted in the referral inbox and onto the C the Signs Dashboard.
Urgent cancer referrals must be sent through the e-Referral System (eRS) as per usual workflow.