What's New in Consultation Manager?

Vision 3 Release DLM 820

Vision 3 release DLM 820 contains the following new features and improvements for Consultation Manager:

  • Drug Checks:

    • Drug Doubling- You can now differentiate Duplication offset dates from your Contraindication, Interaction and Precaution offset dates. From Consultation Manager, select Consultation - Options - Setup - Drug Check, under Therapy Data for Drug Checks and New Sensitivity Checks, there are now two date offset options:

      • From Last (date offset) - Defaults to 1 year, update as required.

      • Duplicate (date offset) - Defaults to 3 months, update as required.

      Note - In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, these cannot be less than 7 days, in Scotland they cannot be less than 30 days, if you try to update less than your country minimum, an error message displays.

  • Prescribing:

    • Pack DetailsOrder- When you select Pack Details from a Therapy screen, the display order is now:

      • Prescription Only Medication (POM) - Smallest pack size first.

      • Pharmacy can prescribe (P) - Smallest pack size first.

      • General Sales (GSL) - Smallest pack size first:

    • Prescription Only Medicine Warning- If there is a Prescription Only Medicine (POM) version of a selected P/GSL product, to ensure cost-effective prescribing, POMAvailable displays above Preparation:

      If you select a POM but select a quantity that does not match a POM pack size, the following warning displays:

      Select Yes to continue or No to reselect the pack size.

    • Unlicensed Medicines Warning- If you select an unlicensed medicine from a Therapy - Add screen, an Unlicensed warning displays:

      This warning also displays in the Drug information section of the Select Drug screen:

      This includes items with:

      • No Licensing Authority.

      • Unknown Licensing Authority.

      • No Licensed Actual Medical Product (AMP).

    • Medication Reviews:

      • Individual Item Reviews- You can now set a reminder to review individual medication from any Therapy - Add screen.

      • Patient Presence - The Medication Review screen has been updated to include a Patient Presence option. Select from the available list as appropriate:

        Patient Presence defaults to None, but if you select 8B3x.00 Medication review with patient, or 8B3h.00 Medication review without patient in Read Term for Review it automatically updates.

      • Medication Review Due/Overdue- The symbol alongside a due or overdue Medication Review has been updated:

        • Medication Review Due - The date indicator displays in yellow .

        • Medication Review Overdue - The date indicator displays in red .

    • Deleting/Cancelling Repeat Issues - If appropriate, you can now delete or cancel any issue of a repeat master. If the issue selected is not the latest, a message displays to warn you, simply Yes to continue and the Cancel Prescription Reason screen displays in the usual way. If the issue selected is the latest, it is removed from the list, if it is not the latest, it displays as cancelled:

      Note - If this is an electronic prescription, you are warned that the cancellation is transmitted automatically.
      Training Tip - For more details on deleting issued medication, see Deleting a Repeat Issue for details.
    • Printed Prescriptions- Your financially responsible organisation now prints on prescriptions to ensure prescribing costs are passed on to the appropriate organisation.
    • Source of Drug - There are two new out of practice entries available to select from the Source of Drug list:

      • By Pharmacy.

      • By Federation.

    • Record medication issued by other organisations: - When you add a medication and select Source of Drug as outside the practice:

      You have two new options:

      • Prescriber - This becomes a free text option to record the prescriber of the medication if required. A list is created as you use this option.

      • Organisation - This is a free text option to record the organisation of the prescriber if required. A list is created as you use this option:

        Remember - You cannot issue against a Repeat Master prescribed by an outside source.
    • Non-allopathic Medication - You can now record any non-allopathic medication your patient is taking. This then displays in the Non-allopathic therapy list available from the Therapy tab.
    • Printing Out of Practice Prescriptions - Print is no longer enabled when you add an out of practice medication.

    • Updating an Out of Practice Medication- Once added, you can no longer:

      • Update an Out of Practice item to an In Practice item.

      • Update a Private prescription to an NHS prescription.

    • Similarly Named Drug Warning - If you select a medication that is commonly confused with another medication, based on the list of published by the MHRA in their Drug Safety Updates, a detailed warning now displays in the Drug Check Results screen, for example:

      Select Yes to continue or No to change the medication you are prescribing.

      Training Tip - Prescriber Warnings only display if you have a tick in Consultation Manager - Consultation - Options - Setup - Drug Check - Prescriber Warnings, see Consultation Manager Setup - Drug Check for details.
    • Medication Availability Restricted - If you select to prescribe an item that is highlighted as Availability Restricted within the DM+D, the following warnings display:

      • Therapy - Add - Limited Availability/Unavailable displays above the Drug details, hover over the warning to view further details where available:

      • Select Drug - Limited Availability displays in the information section of the screen:

Scotland Only

  • Default Prescriber - When a non prescribing member of staff adds, reauthorises or edits a medication, the Prescriber no longer automatically completes. The authorising prescriber must be selected each time.

  • Creating an Acute prescription from a Repeat - The Floating Drop Target has been updated to recognise the type of prescription issue you are dropping on to Prescription . You can now drag and drop the following:

    • Repeat issue, to create a one off acute prescription retaining the same details as the repeat issue you are copying, or

    • Acute issue, to create a repeat master retaining the same details as the repeat issue you are copying:

Remember - Only unissued medication can be edited.

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