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
• Creating an Acute from a Repeat Prescription - Scotland Only
• 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:

• Printing Therapy

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

• Printer Profiles

Electronic Prescribing

For help with electronic prescribing see:

• In England - Electronic Prescription Service Release 2 (EPS2)

• In Scotland - ePharmacy

• In Wales - 2D Barcoded Prescriptions - Wales and Northern Ireland

Controlled Drugs

For help with Controlled Drugs see:

• Controlled Drugs

Formularies

• Practice Formulary Overview

• Scotland only - Cegedim Healthcare Solutions Formulary Management Tool

Further Therapy Help

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

• 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, see Drug Checks for details.

• If a new repeat master, reauthorisation of a repeat master, or an acute therapy, you can be prompted to associate the therapy with a problem, see Problem Settings for details.