Latest Release News

Below, in date order, is a list of various updates and fixes.

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Tuesday 15 April 2025

  • eLogbook messaging functionality removed in line with online harms bill.
  • The eLogbook registration process has been amended so that dental students can now register their account against a dental school rather than medical school.
  • Unused or out of date training programmes can now be made ‘obsolete’ so that it is not available for users to select.
  • Numerous eLogbook reports have been made available for core surgery.
  • Hospital reports have been removed – this feature may be reinstated once the eLogbook hospital lists have been reworked.
  • Regional reports have been removed as they are redundant.

Wednesday 19 February 2025

  • 'Reset password' link added to login page 2
  • Logbook consultants that appear in a user's 'My common consultants' list and are attached to saved operations can now be deleted. Note that this change does not apply to non-logbook consultants. 
  • Validation of NTN / DRN number is now date sensitive.
  • After an operation record is opened and closed in ‘Browse operations’, the user is returned to the page it was opened from, rather than back to page 1.
  • Bug fixes on trainer appraisal report & SAC operation reference report.
  • Bug fix to ensure director training list displays in full.

Tuesday 27 August 2024

  • Oral Surgery added as a specialty.
  • Changes to field labels on 'My Details' page.
  • 'Responsible consultant unknown' option removed from 'Add Operation'.
  • Obsolete operations removed from user favourites list. 
  • Validation added to operation description maintenance. 
  • CCT date for validating trainer changed from 01/01/2020 to 01/01/1980.
  • 'Ind#' heading on the SAC consolidation report has been replaced with '1st Surg.'
  • (F1) and (F2) have been removed from foundation grade - 'Foundation' now covers both. 
  • Bug causing error when downloading Peer Analysis Report for Ophthalmology and Maxillofacial surgery fixed.  

Tuesday 14 May 2024

  • Amendments to ‘Trainer by Procedure’ report.
  • Collapsible Sidebar.
  • Date field added to Validation worksheet.
  • CCT Date on Director Training Programme user list editable.
  • ‘Robotic Surgery’ filter added to the SAC operation group.
  • ‘Add operation’ page now auto scrolls back to the top of the screen when the save button is
    selected.
  • On ‘Add Operation’ page, ‘Patient Date of Birth’ field now displays as ‘dd-mm-yyyy’ rather
    than today’s date.
  • Colours used to represent personal values on the Peer Analysis Report have been changed to
    green.
  • Bug fix for download error on SAC Extended Report.
  • Bug fix for some saved filters not displaying on Consolidation Reports page for some users.
  • Bug fix to ensure ‘Operation Date’ and ‘Patient Date of Birth’ may not be in the future.

Monday 18 March 2024

  • Improved password generator and email update.
  • Operation Part Frequency Report.
  • ‘Operation parts’ added as a filter to the Report Filters page.
  • Show/hide Consultant column added to Consultant list.
  • Option to remove validation status from validation worksheet.
  • Password reset using email address.
  • New specialty specific fields for cardiothoracic surgery.
  • Staff or Associate Specialist operation validation.
  • Enhanced permissions for grade ‘Dentist’.
  • Peer Analysis Report.
  • Fix so that when a filter is updated, user does not need to leave the page after hitting save
    button.
  • Search function updated so that users with ‘/’ in their username appear in results.
  • ‘Verified grade’ updated to ‘Confirmed grade’ in My Details page.

Tuesday 13 February 2024

  • Wording change and tooltip added to registration page.
  • Reorder of help request forms.
  • Robotic surgery filter.
  • SAS grade included in consultant search.
  • Editing and deletion of validated operations.
  • Changes to user role confirmation.

Supporting documents: TPD Guide - Confirming users in your training programme

Wednesday 24 May 2023

  • The operation count on the summary page of the operation group report has been fixed so that correctly reflects the user's operation.
  • When adding a new operation, the site will now prepopulate the consultant with current user.
  • Robotic Surgery wording has been updated from RoboticSurgery to Robotic Surgery.
  • You can now apply multiple date periods on your Filters.
  • You can now apply filters to the browse operations page.
  • Current specialty on the user details page has been hidden from non-core specialty users.
  • We have fixed an issue affecting validation of user operations on the My Trainees page.

Tuesday 25 April 2023

  • When adding an operation, you can now also add non logbook user as a consultant.
  • When adding an operation, when you search for a cons, the cons is now saved.
  • Operations can now be filtered for Non-Logbook user consultants.
  • You can now reset your pin.
  • An issue where users who had forward slashes in their username received an error when trying to validate has been fixed.
  • An issue in relation to the number of criteria in a filter has been fixed.
  • Changes to the column layout in the SAC report.

Monday 17 April 2023

  • Trainer reports for TPDs and procedure by trainer reports added.
  • SAC report for general surgery now displays column for assisted.
  • SAC report groups with age limits now display.
  • Date ordering in browse operations now displaying correctly.
  • Consultants now displaying correctly when editing an operation.
  • Favourites now display in alphabetical order.
  • Operation date and consultant are now carried forward to the next operation.
  • When adding a Paediatric operation, Gestation is no longer a required field.