The Holding File

F5 (all patients)

Select Correspondence > Check Holding File or Check Holding File (Current Patient)

The Holding File contains Investigations Results returned from your provider that have not yet been examined and saved to a patient's record, along with other correspondence scanned/imported here or from the Scan/Import Correspondence window (provided you have enabled the 'Show Scan/Import Correspondence in Holding File' option within Investigation Options). From within the Holding File you can also scan or import results and other documentation, assigning them to patients.

The Holding File is accessible to practitioners with top-level access only. Non-clinical staff, and practitioners without top-level access can still import/scan files via the Scan/Import Correspondence window. The Permissions Matrices at the end of this topic indicate which functionality is available to different user types.