GESTDATE:.    [ Download your free copy ]

- free gestational calendar

- 5 calculations based on EDC, LMP, USS, Week Assessment & Conception Date.

- prints handy calendar for patient

MATCHING SOFTWARE:.   [ Download your free copy ]

This software matches registered patients on your practice database against the Local Health Authority list, or CSA (Central Services Agency) list in Northern Ireland. It matches on surname and date of birth as these are the only possible values that with certainty can be used. Two files are needed. The first is the file from the CSA. You can order this directly from CSA. They may charge you a small fee (about £15-20). The second is a file from your practice database. You need to run a search of all registered patients (up until the past two months since CSA will not have new patients processed ). Once the search is completed it must be outputted in "comma delimited format". That means that there should be a comma between each value, for example: Smith,01/01/1912 Jones,12/06/1917 Black,01/01/1945 Once you have made this practice file you are ready to use this program. The layout and date of birth formats will probably be different in the CSA and practice files. You will notice that the program chooses default values. The first is the columns of where to expect to find the surname and date of birth values. The CSA positions are column 1 for surname and column 5 for date of birth. Depending on your practice file output these may be different than the program default. I have assumed that you will only output two columns. The second is the date of birth format. The CSA Dob format is ddmmyyyy. Your practice file will probably be dd/mm/yyyy. If not you can change it.  There are two sample files to view and test: CSA_sample.txt & Practice_sample.txt. Click on the two buttons: "Get CSA file" and "Get Practice file".  These actions take a few minutes to complete. They look for the relevant details and also format the date of births so that they may be directly comparable. Now click the "Run comparison" button. This can take about 10-20 minutes to complete. The program compares each patient in one file for a match in the other file. If no match is found then it is displayed in the output box. There are therefore two outputs: patients on the practice file not found on the CSA file (i.e. patients you are treating that you may not be getting payment for!) and patients in the CSA file that are not on the practice file (i.e. ghosts).  You can then print the results. There can be a number of reasons for non-matching.  Examples are:  1) Errors with the date of birth.  2) Females with Maiden names not married names.  3)Typos with Irish surnames (e.g. OHara, MCCauley).  All these may account for up to 50% of non matching, but they all must be corrected.