Entering the Social Report Details

Introduction

The social report page summarizes the patient's social and family background information, as well as the financial needs.

Prerequisites

The Social Rpt tab gets enabled on selecting patient know to MSW in the service application page.
Social report can be completed by Medical Social Worker (MSW role) only.

Entering the Social Report Details:

Proceed as follows:

On the Social Rpt tab, enter the details as described in the following table:

		Note
		Each selection you make is associated with points that are added after you have completed the assessment. The points are displayed in the Total Points field.

Textarea	Description
Social background	Family set-up, living arrangement, primary caregiver, main spokesperson and significant dynamics within the family and other community support received.
Functional Status and care needs	Premorbid functional status, previous care needs and care giving experiences/issues versus current status, clinical intervention to manage patient care. For example, management of behavioural issues.
Social Criteria Assessment	Assessment on caregivers's availability, willingness & competency, suitability of community-based/home-based services to support patient's care, resources for alternate care options.
Financial Assessment	Means of subsistence. Applicant's financial resources like savings, medisave balance, ownership of property and other sources of income, main decision maker for patient's care and financial issues.
Additional Assistance	Assistance provided by hospital, community services to support patient's care post the discharge. For example, transport funding secured for patient's dialysis appointments, purchase of oxygen concentrator for patients on long-term oxygen therapy and so on.
Recommendation	Recommendations from the social worker.

After completing the social report, in the Completed By section, by default, the MSW's (logged-in) details are displayed. You can update the name, telephone, email and date, if required.

		Note
		The information (name, telephone number and so on) is based on the details available in the logged-in user’s profile.

When the social report page is ready, you can do one of the following:

Save – to save the social report page as draft.
You may want to use the save option, if the page is partially completed or you do not want to submit it immediately.
Ready – to save and mark the draft as ready to submit (indicated by flag in orange).

		Note
		The mandatory fields that are not entered properly are indicated with asterisks (**). A message is displayed on the top of the page to enter the required fields. You cannot submit the page without completing the mandatory fields. Once the page is submitted (indicated by flag in green), you cannot modify the details.