📅Useful Tips and Reminders

Here you can find some common tips and reminders for your daily use of PCMIS

• You only need to complete the SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) instead of the Follow-up questionnaire. This is to help you to see progress and for us to collect data.

• When you have updated NHS number, you can go to ‘Detail’ tab and remove the alert for ‘No Spine Match’, so it stops popping up when you open ths case.

• You can hold 'Ctrl' while clicking a case, this will open a new tab in your browswer, saving you finding your tray when you close the tab.

Don't forget to

• Fill in the 'Reason for Deactivation' when deactivating a case.

• Log emails and text messages on PCMIS as notes, whereas any meaningful contact such as a phone call that lasted more than 15 mins should be logged as an appointment instead. Triage calls are considered meaningful contacts.

• make sure the service user's NHS number is on PCMIS before deactivating a case (from 1-to-1 or group).

For Group work specifically

• During group setup, the facilitator 1 should always be ‘Watford Getting Help Groups’/'Watford Thriving Groups' and facilitator 2 should be the practitioner. (See Targeted Groups if you are not sure which group type it is)

• You can only add service users to a group once you have done ‘complete contact’, which means the file should appear blue instead of red.