6. Choose whether you want to use a configured template for your notes. Select Free notes if you do not want to use a template. More information on templates here.

7. Fill out the consultation notes as you want. If you are doing Free notes, you can click the tags at the bottom to add another section to your notes.

8. Choose whether you want each section to show in the patient's summary page.

Note: Allergies appear in the patient's summary by default for safety and security reasons.

9. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

The consultation notes appear in the patient's Consultations tab.

Note: When you create consultation notes for a patient, Semble automatically saves a draft while you work.

Drafts will only appear for the user who was writing them, on the device that they were writing on and within the same browser.

If for example, you are working on one device, lose connection and then login to Semble on another device then you will not see these unsaved changes, or if another logs in and tries to access your notes this will not appear.

Show Patient Notes in Summary

Information from the consultation notes will also appear in the patient's Summary tab if you selected Show in summary for any of the sections that you filled out.

Note: Allergies appear in the patient's summary by default for safety and security reasons.

If you want information to show in the summary by default, go to your "medical settings" tab and check the box framed below:

Edit consultation notes

When editing someone else's consultation note, the name of the clinician will also be updated.

You can edit consultation notes from the Patients page:

1. Select the patient who you want to edit.

2. Go to the Consultations tab.

3. Click the drop down arrow next to the consultation that you want to edit.

4. Select Edit.

5. Make the changes you want.

6. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

Delete consultation notes

If you want to delete a consultation note:

1. Select the patient who you want to edit.

2. Go to the Consultations tab.

3. Click the "..." and select "Delete".

4. Click Delete to confirm.

The consultation note is deleted from the patient's record.

If you would like to delete a section from a consultation note:

1. Click on "edit"

2. Click on "delete record" under the section you want to delete

The section is now deleted.

Allowing other users to write consultation notes on your behalf

On Semble, users have specific permissions for creating consultations based on their role.

However, users can also allow other users to write notes on their behalf. Here’s a detailed guide on how to achieve this.

When creating consultation notes, you may find the "Clinician" dropdown list where you can choose from a list of clinicians, in order to write a note on their behalf.

To add a user to the "Clinician" field, go into your Settings page and go to the Users tab.

Select the user you would like to appear in the "Consulting practitioner" drop-down list:

Kindly ensure you have checked the tickbox This user is a clinician for this user:

Now please scroll down to the bottom of their user profile, and check the tickbox Allow others to write consultations on my behalf :

Click Save to update these changes.

The user will now appear as a "Clinician" in the drop-down option in your consultation notes:

Note: Prescriptions are subject to stricter regulatory and security standards, especially in the UK. While users can write notes on behalf of a clinician, they cannot prescribe on their behalf.

Prescriptions must be issued directly by the prescribing clinician to ensure compliance and avoid potential misuse or errors in medication management.

Create a consultation template

You can create a consultation template from the Settings page:

1. Go to the Consultation templates tab.

2. Click New in the top right-hand corner.

3. Give the template a name.

4. Click Add a section.

5. Give the section a name, then Add a question.

You will be able to mark questions as "Required" while building your template, this means that when the template is being used, it will not be able to be saved unless these particular "Required" questions are answered.

6. Fill out the template with as many sections and questions as you want.

7. Click Save in the top right-hand corner.

The template appears in the Consultation templates tab. When you make a new consultation note, you will now have the option to select it from the type box: