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# How Does Referrals Work?



![Refer a Patient](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/6632fb880ae7b800/clinicyou-referrals_q1bbsp.png)

This is used for referring a patient to another clinician who does not belong to your establishment, but has a ClinicYou account. Click the button, search by name, select one or more clinicians and write a short message and click send. This does a few things:

* Send the clinician an email with the text message you typed
* Shares the patient's medical records with them
* Shows the referral(s) on their home page when they login on a desktop machine

The referrals will remain on home page until dismissed (Mark as Actioned) by the recipient. In a single click from there, they can access the patient's medical records, read and write in the patient's notes and view attached files. 

| Note financial info such as invoice data are private to each clinic. 
| After a referral is marked as done, you can get back to the patient like you would as usual - using the quick search or more advanced search on the Patients tab. 
| You do not need to use referral facility to flag a patient up for a colleague within your own clinic - suggest method is to just set them a task.