Download and use any of our free guidelines below. Once installed in your system feel free to amend each to suit your practice requirements.

• Instructions on how to import a guideline into Vision

Downloadable Guidelines

Just click on a link below to start the download, then click Run/Open when prompted and Unzip.

• Asthma Review
• Latest Child Immunisations - Quick and easy way to view and add each imm given or not by stage
• LES CVD Obesity & Diabetes - The aim of this LES guideline is to reduce obesity and prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes through the identification of patients at risk of these diseases or who are obese and to provide them with the support to make lifestyle changes and if necessary to offer them treatment.
• Cytology - Used when receiving results electronically
• Disease Invite - easy way to add an invite for QOF onto a script
• DVT Management Plan
• Enhanced Services - At Risk DM & IHD, Palliative Care, Ethnicity & Language, IUCD, Minor Surgery, Smoking Cessation Milestones, Sexual Health, Learning Disabilities and Depression
• FP69 Patient Validation guideline
• FP69 Excel spreadsheet - This will display the list of FP69 patient in date order
• Flu Vaccinations - to help add flu and pneumococcal vaccines
• GP2GP - This guideline helps deal with changing priority numbers and degraded data
• Mental Health Care Plan for QOF
• New Patient Check
• New Patient Registration - 2 types of guideline in this download: Questionnaire and New Patient check both have some hotkey script button to enable quick data entry. Palliative Care
• PMS Services - Other mandatory Services (Minor Injury, Phlebotomy, Wound Care, Depo neuroleptic, Contraceptive Implants, IUDs and Zoladex)
• QRISK Guideline - Gathers the data in Vision for easier viewing when using the QRISK calculator
• Read Codes - Based on Quarter 1 2008 (for summarisers, you may also wish to download our free Read code search tool)
• Stop Smoking Clinic
• Summarising Notes - shows data as well as enabling a quick way to add data

Downloadable Reports

• Home Visit Report (updated 28/4/2010 to include patient demographic details)
• Leavers Report (Full patient Record)

How to Import a Vision 3 Guideline or Report

1. In Vision – Consultation Manager, click on the Guidelines menu – Select Guideline
2.  Click on Import button.
3. Locate the guideline normally with the (O:\download\guidelines\) folder area, you may need to use the  Look in: drop down menu
4.  Highlight "<NAME OF GUIDELINE/REPORT>" , and click the Open button.
5.  Click on the Import button
6. Some guidelines may have images and a warning message will show if this is the case, just make sure you point it to a shared folder, either O: or P: would be fine.

The guideline is now imported into Vision.

 However you now need to place it on the Local Guideline Index so that everybody can see it.

1.  Click on the Local Guideline Index button (red book with yellow L)
2.  Click on the Maintain button (pencil, ruler and set square)
3.  Click on the Guideline (filofax) button from the Local Guideline Index toolbar shown below
4.  Type in the name of the text file you imported earlier <NAME OF GUIDELINE/REPORT> in the Mnemonic text box and then press the enter key on the keyboard to display a list
5.  Press OK
6.  Click on the Maintain button again to close.