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Healthy Child Programme: final report

3.3.5. Professional Summary

Following the consultation, the project team recommends that the following headings and definitions are used to record a professional summary:

Professional summary
Professional summary Summary of the encounter. Where possible, very brief. This may include interpretation of findings and results, opinion and specific action(s). Planned actions will be recorded under ‘plan’.

Note that this heading is the same as ‘clinical summary’ included in current PRSB information models, the name and definition have been changed to reflect the fact that the summary might be recorded by a health care professional other than a clinician.

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