Settings

Control Panel - File Maintenance - Settings is where your practice-wide therapy settings are configured.

To view and update the settings:

1. From Control Panel - File Maintenance select Settings .

2. The Vision System Settings screen displays, select the Therapy tab:

   

3. Select the tab required:

   • Therapy:

     • Medication Review – Set your defaults for medication reviews. You can use the following abbreviations: D (Days), M (Months), Y (Years), for example 6M = 6 months:

       • Date Offset – Set the period in the future when you want to carry out the medication review. The default is six months, update if required.
       • Overdue Offset - Set the period after the review is due that you want it to display as over due. The default is zero, update if required.
       • Due Offset - Set the period before the review is due when you want to be reminded. The default is minus two weeks, update if required.
       • Default Read Code - The clinical term you want to use for medication reviews. Defaults to 8B3S.00 Medication review, update if required.

     • Repeats

       • Old Repeat Offset – Enter a time period, for example 18m (18 months). Repeat masters not issued during this time display in red on the left-hand column in the Repeat Master screen.
       • Repeat Limit - Set a practice wide maximum number of repeats anyone in your practice can authorise. By default

         • England, Wales and Northern Ireland - Defaults to 366, update as required with a maximum of 999.

         • Scotland - Defaults to 99, update as required with a maximum of 99.

           See Consultation Manager Setup - Therapy Settings for details on setting a prescriber specific limit .
       • Enable Inactive/Reactivation Reason - You cannot delete repeat masters once they have been issued, to stop a repeat master, it must be inactivated. Tick to enable inactivate/reactivation reasons.

     • Printing - By default, PRN options are switched off. Selecting one of the following, enables PRN printing:

       • Separate out PRN’s – Tick to print/send PRN medication on a separate prescription.

       • One PRN per script – Tick to print/send only one PRN item per prescription.

     • Reorder Form

       • PRN guidance text – Enter guidance text to help your patients when they are ordering PRN items.

4. Select OK to save.