Referral Check

Referrals

Checks every referral is complete before it leaves and when it arrives, so it is not sent back six weeks later.

What Referral Check does

Outbound: checks a practice’s referral against the receiving service’s published requirements before it is sent, and names what is missing.
Inbound: reads every arriving referral at a hospital, checks it for completeness, and worklists the gaps for the referral clerk.
Surfaces the criteria clause that applies, so the person deciding can see it.
Where the published criteria say emergency, puts the item at the top in red and does nothing else automatically.

Guardrails

Categorise a referral or set its urgency. It asks and waits for a clinician.
Decide a referral is out of scope or an emergency. It shows the criteria; a human in the loop decides.
Read the patient’s clinical record. It reads the referral it was sent.
Reject a referral. Returns are always a person’s decision.

Who it helps

The referral clerk at a hospital outpatients department. The practice nurse sending a referral for the third time. The head of unit reviewing a triage backlog. The patient who is not told, weeks later, that something was missing.