The admissions board
Admissions, under Patients in the menu on Start.
Everyone in now, with a status word: in, discharge overdue, booked and not yet arrived. Tick Include discharged at the top to bring back people who have already gone home. The room view shows the wards and rooms with who is in each.
When a second surgery booking form is completed for a patient who is already in, on a day within that admission, the operation joins the admission they are in rather than starting another. The board and the Ward on Start then show one line for the patient with both operations, and the second is marked Unplanned return to theatre, which you can untick on the admission or on the operation if it was planned. A booking for a day after the patient has gone home, or at another hospital, still starts its own admission.
Typing a name searches everyone loaded whatever their status. Press the patient's name to open the admission.
An admission is discharge overdue when its planned discharge, or the operation day plus the expected nights and two days, has passed without a discharge; moving the planned discharge to a day still to come keeps it in. An admission whose operation was cancelled from its list, holding only the planned admission and discharge, is never admitted rather than overdue, so it is listed under Housekeeping and not on Start.
Where you hold a ward role at more than one organisation you sign in at, the board lists the admissions of every one of them together, each marked with its organisation, with a tick for each organisation above the list to hide its patients. An organisation is on the board only where your role there lets you see its board, exactly as if you had switched to it. An admission of another of your organisations opens there, and anything you write on it, or a discharge from the board, is recorded under that organisation. If one organisation's admissions cannot be read, the board says which, so a short board never looks complete.
The board, and any admission at the organisation, is for its own staff, by the role set against each person there: nursing and healthcare assistants, resident doctors, operating department practitioners, theatre staff, the pharmacist, management and administration. An admission also opens for everyone on its operation's team, such as the anaesthetist, and for its consultant and whoever made it, from the patient's record; scanning a wristband follows the same rule. The same staff can open the record of any patient who is in at their organisation, and the operation from the admission, for as long as the patient is in.