On the 13^th of August 2020, NHS England published a patient safety alert for patients at risk of adrenal suppression, please see further information here.

A printable steroid card is available in the Ardens document templates folder called: “Corticosteroid monitoring (v14.2)(Ardens)”.

This document can be printed directly from a patients record using Create letter and searching corticosteroid in the Find Document Templates screen:

We also have an NPSA steroid card pop up alert to notify you if an at-risk patient has not had a card issued within the last 3 years and enables you to issue the card. This is triggered when issuing steroid medication (oral, rectal, inhaled but NOT topical).

You will then be presented with a multiple choice question:

Selecting the Print NHS steroid emergency card option will launch the Ardens Corticosteroid Monitoring document :

Select Print > Save and Close to save to the patients records.

If you require any further assistance please contact Ardens EMIS support:  [email protected]