Last review date 03/02/2023

The ‘Patient Status Alert’ Icons under the patients name are incredibly useful for giving you a quick snapshot of the patient. If you are unsure what the icon means, just hover over it.

Please also see our Icon Summary Sheet for a comprehensive list of some icons we use.

The key ones to look out for are shown below:

	Click to start a Consultation		Diabetes
	Record a Telephone Consultation		Asthma
	Long Term Condition Review		CKD
	Local Referral Letter Template (if applicable)		COPD
	Drug Requires Monitoring Template		Depression
	Future Care Planning		End of life - Palliative Care
	Consider applicable vaccination		Learning Disability
	Drug Review Required		Obesity
	Contraception issued in last year		Hyperthyroidism
	Safeguarding		Heart Failure
	Patient Pregnant		Cardiovascular Disease High Risk
	Cancer Diagnosis		Atrial Fibrillation
	Violent and Threatening Behaviour		Mental Health
	Patient Pregnant		Coronavirus COVID 19 - Screening

If you are seeing duplication of icons in the top-right box, please follow step 3 of our Set Up guide. 

If you want to change an icon, you can do this yourself:
1. Go to Setup > Data Output > Patient Status Alerts
2. Find the Ardens alert that you want to change and untick the enabled box.
3. Then right click & copy this alert, then change the icon & save it.