Therapy

Introduction

From the Therapy - Add screen, you can prescribe medicines and appliances from the Gemscript drug dictionary, recorded and printed for your patient's on regulation computerised prescriptions.

Therapy set up

For help with therapy set up, see:

• Setting Up Therapy

Viewing Therapy

For help with viewing therapy, see:

• Listing Therapy in Consultation Manager

Adding therapy

For help with adding therapy, see:

• Adding and Printing an Acute Prescription
• Make an Acute into a Repeat
• Adding a Repeat Prescription
• Issuing Repeat Prescriptions

Editing or deleting therapy

For help with editing or deleting therapy, see:

• Editing and Deleting Acute Therapy
• Reauthorising Repeats
• Inactivating and Reactivating Repeat Masters
• Therapy Inactivation Reasons

Printing Therapy

For help with printing therapy see:

• Print prescriptions. This section covers acutes, repeats, controlled drugs, repeat reorder forms, prescription forms, regulations etc.

  You should also set up Printer setup for prescriptions and labels and Printer Profiles

Electronic Prescribing

For help with electronic prescribing see:

• Electronic Prescription Service Release 2 (EPS2)
• ePharmacy - Scotland
• 2D Barcoded Prescriptions – Wales and Northern Ireland

Controlled Drugs

For help with Controlled Drugs see:

• Controlled Drugs

Further Therapy Help

• For advice about Nurse prescribing, see Nurse Prescribing/Non-Medical Prescribers
• For an explanation of repeat dispensing, see Repeat Dispensing
• For help with instalment prescribing, see Instalment Prescribing
• For help with Medication Reviews, see Medication Review
• For help with keyboard short cuts, see Short Cut Keys

You may create your own practice formulary as a sub-set of the full drug dictionary (see Formulary and Drug Dictionary Utilities). The drug dictionary can be listed alphabetically or in hierarchical categories. Additional drug information is shown for each item, including prices, pack sizes, general contraindications and interactions, drug doubling and recommended prescribing.

Once a drug has been prescribed, drug checks are made against the patient's specific entries of history and other therapy for contra-indications and interactions, and for drug doubling. If a new repeat master, reauthorisation of a repeat master, or an acute therapy, you are then prompted to associate the therapy with a problem.

Prescriptions can be recorded on patients’ records if they have been issued outside of the practice, for example, from hospitals or psychiatrists, or over the counter, but these cannot be printed from Vision.