Families, carers and couples share invoices, contacts and sometimes consent. Relating records to each other keeps that visible without merging people who aren't the same person.

Related patients are people in your patient list connected to this one: a parent and child, a couple, siblings who all attend. The link is a note for staff; it doesn't share billing, messages or records between them.

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On the patient's Details, select Edit details and find Related patients

Search by name and pick the other patient; their date of birth is shown to tell similar names apart.

2

Choose the relationship

Parent, Child, Spouse, Sibling, Friend, Relative or Other. The relationship is what this person is to the patient you're editing. Saving without one is refused: Choose a relation type for each linked patient.

3

Save

The link appears under Related patients with the relationship.

The Related patients section of a patient's Details showing one linked patient with the relationship Parent and a remove control.
Related patients on Lina Haddad's record, with Amira Haddad linked as Parent.
The link shows on both records. Adding Amira as Lina's parent also lists Lina on Amira's record, as her child, marked linked from their record. The relationship can only be changed on Lina's record, where it was added, but removing it with the cross beside it while editing, from either record, removes it from both.