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Today’s Clinic is the board you work an antenatal session from. It lists every open pregnancy record in the hospital, says how far on each woman is, and tells you which of them is due a contact today. It is also where a pregnancy record is opened in the first place.

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What you’re looking at

The heading reads Today’s Clinic, and under it: Open pregnancy records, with the next antenatal contact each one is due. Open a pregnancy record sits at the top right, and is absent unless you hold that permission. Below that is a single table, earliest due date first — so the women closest to delivery are at the top. On a hospital that has just switched maternity on, the board reads No open pregnancy records — “Use Open a pregnancy record above. It stays here until it is closed.” That is correct, not broken.

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The board keeps its own time

Gestation and status are worked out fresh every half minute while the page is open, not fixed at the moment it loaded. A board left open through a morning clinic is still telling the truth at the end of it, and a woman crossing into her window becomes Due without a reload. The same is true of the schedule: Due and Overdue are measured against whichever contact schedule is set when the board is opened, not the one that was set when she booked. Changing it in Settings → Facility moves the whole board at once.

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Find somebody on this list

A search box and filter buttons sit above the board. They narrow what is drawn; they never change what is recorded.
  • Search matches on name and patient number, in any order — typing bello 0042 finds Amina Bello with number MAT-0042. Case does not matter, and part of a word is enough.
  • Contact status narrows to Overdue, Due now, Up to date or Schedule complete.
  • Trimester narrows to first, second or third — or Dating unavailable, which is its own answer rather than an omission.
  • Risk narrows to Has a risk factor, Post-dates, or Has missed a contact.
  • Clear filter empties one; Clear all appears once anything is narrowing the list, with a count of how many things are.
A list that a search has emptied says so, and tells you how many records it is drawn from. It never reads as an empty clinic — that is a different statement, and you would have no way to tell the two apart.

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Put a woman on the board

Select Open a pregnancy record at the top right, find her, and date the pregnancy. She appears on the board immediately, with her gestation and her first contact window. Full detail: Open, re-date and close a pregnancy record.

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Record a contact from a row

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Find her row

The board is one list, ordered by due date. Read across to Status to see whether she is Due or Overdue.
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Select Record contact

The Antenatal contact sheet opens over the board, headed with her name and her gestation so you can see whose record you are writing to. You keep your place in the list.
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Fill in what you found and save

Full field-by-field detail is in Record an antenatal contact.
A row with no Record contact button means you do not hold the Record an antenatal contact permission. Ask an owner — see Permissions.

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Change a due date, or close a record

The ⋯ menu at the end of a row carries Change due date and Close record. Each shows only if you hold its permission, and the menu itself disappears when you hold neither. Both are covered in Open, re-date and close a pregnancy record.

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Open her antenatal card

Select her name. The card shows the pregnancy over time — every contact in sequence with the gestation at each, the schedule position, and the programme doses recorded. See The antenatal card.

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Who can do this

Enforcement is opt-in per person: a colleague never saved in the permissions sheet is unrestricted, and the sheet warns “Saving starts enforcing”. Hiding a button is a convenience — the check runs again when the act is submitted, and a refused attempt is written to the audit log while an allowed one is not. Which roles see the Maternity group at all is a separate question — see Role navigation.

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Check it worked

  • The row’s Contacts count moves — 3 of 8 becomes 4 of 8.
  • Its Status moves off Due or Overdue, and Next contact moves to her following window.
  • The findings appear on her chart, on the Pregnancy and Vitals tabs — see The pregnancy on the chart.

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Common issues

The board lists open pregnancy records, not appointments. A woman booked in for an antenatal visit does not appear until somebody selects Open a pregnancy record for her — see Open, re-date and close a pregnancy record.
You do not hold Open a pregnancy record. An owner grants it in the permissions sheet, under Maternity.
The dates held on that pregnancy record cannot produce a gestational age. Next contact and Status cannot be worked out either, so the row is shown without them rather than with a guess. Fix it with Change due date on the row’s ⋯ menu.
Overdue means the window for her next contact has closed with nothing recorded against it, so it is expected on a hospital that has just started using the module — contacts made before you began recording them here are not counted. It settles as the first round of contacts goes in.
Somebody changed the antenatal contact schedule. It is applied when the board is read, so new windows move every open pregnancy at once — no record was altered, and switching back restores the previous picture. See Set up antenatal care.
You do not hold Record an antenatal contact. An owner grants it in the permissions sheet, under Maternity.
It needs the Enterprise plan and the Maternity care area, which starts switched off. See Set up antenatal care.
The group opens for doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and midwives. Owners are never restricted by role navigation, so if you are the owner the difference is per-role — see Role navigation.

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FAQ

It means three contacts are recorded, out of the number your schedule expects. Contacts are counted rather than matched to numbered slots — a woman who attends twice in one month has had two contacts, whatever the schedule intended them to be.
Today means her window is open and she can be seen now. A plain date ahead of you is the day her next window opens. Was due by 14 August means the window has closed with nothing recorded — the same thing the Overdue badge says, with the date she should have been seen by.A next contact is never shown as a date in the past.
Because a contact window that had already closed before she first attended was never hers to attend. A woman who books at 38 weeks on the eight-contact schedule is measured against the contacts that are still ahead of her — not accused of missing the six that passed before she reached you.Her booking gestation is on her antenatal card under This Pregnancy.
She is at or past 42 completed weeks on the dating held on her record. It is the one gestation badge the board shows, because it is a threshold that is easy to miss when reading a number.
They were written down when the pregnancy record was opened, by a person. Nothing is calculated into them and nothing acts on them automatically — open her chart to read what they are.
She leaves when the delivery record is signed, which is the act that closes the pregnancy with its outcome. A delivery that is written up but not yet signed keeps her on this board, because until somebody attests it there is no clinical record of the birth.If the delivery is signed and she is still here, no birth was recorded against it — the pregnancy record is left open in that case rather than closed as a guess, and the person signing is told. Record the birth, or close her record from the ⋯ menu.
No. It leaves Today’s Clinic the moment it is closed and appears in the Antenatal Register with its outcome — unless it was marked as entered in error, which is kept out of the register too.