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Process · Clinical privilege verification

Clinical privilege verification

Review professional evidence and confirm the intended care assignment.

Step by step

  1. Prepare clinician identity Admin or Clinical Governance Administrator

    Clinical Governance Administrator checks the clinician's staff record, active state and linked user account. Admin helps resolve an ambiguous account during setup. Before assigning patient responsibility, confirm that the staff record belongs to the clinician whose professional evidence will be reviewed.

    • Staff and account references checked
    • Updates People, Users
  2. Assemble privilege evidence Clinical Governance Administrator

    Clinical Governance Administrator prepares a Pending clinical privileges record for the relevant privilege type. Review license number, issuing authority and verification evidence with effective from and effective to. Keep evidence associated with the correct Dentist. Review each privilege category against the evidence relevant to that work, even when the same clinician has another verified category.

    • Pending verification prepared
    • Updates Clinical privileges, People
  3. Verify privileges Clinical Governance Administrator

    Clinical Governance Administrator approves Status: Pending → Verified when the evidence supports the intended category and period. Leave unresolved evidence Pending. Review Suspended and Expired as separate outcomes where applicable. The administrator makes the verification decision after checking the issuing authority and effective period.

    • Evidence reviewed and verification decided
    • Updates Clinical privileges
    ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.
  4. Review patient assignment Clinical Governance Administrator

    Clinical Governance Administrator checks provider assignments.Patient, Dentist and access purpose against the intended care responsibility. Review effective from and effective to alongside Active. When responsibility ends, record Status: Active → Ended and review Patients.assigned dentist separately. After ending an assignment, sign in as the affected clinician and check access against the practice's policy.

    • Dated responsibility reviewed
    • Updates Provider assignments, Patients

Where it usually breaks

And how to keep it from happening.

  • Role title is mistaken for verified professional authority.
  • A Verified record is used without checking its effective period.
  • Ending a care assignment is assumed to revoke access without testing permissions.
  • An account administrator makes the professional verification decision instead of Clinical Governance Administrator.
Clinical Governance Administrator
, Admin.
The governance administrator verifies privileges and manages care assignments; Admin helps with user account setup.

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