How to electronically sign sick notes
With Covid19, we're trying to reduce footfall into the surgery and trying to send things out to patients. Sick notes are a big administrative reason why patient's come into the surgery. One way of reducing foot-fall is send them the sick notes electronically. Here is a guide on how to sign and send sick notes electronically on Emis Web but the same will apply to most patient management software like Vision and System1. Creating the Sick Note Once inside the patient's record, create your sick note as you normal would. Before you print, you must press 'Preview'. When it comes to printing, change the printer to 'Print to PDF' which is an option in Windows 10. If you don't have this option, you will have to install another Print to PDF option, I recommend Cute PDF which does this as well and is easy to set up. The reason why you must press preview is that EMIS can crash if you just print it straight away without previewing it first. The preview screen...