Therapy Tab

The Therapy screen displays a patient's medication history and allows you to record new medication:

The Therapy screen displays the following:

  • Date - The date of the entry.

  • Drug - Displays the medication prescribed, to expand the entry, select the arrow.

  • Type - The therapy type recorded:

    • Acute
    • Repeat Master
    • Issue - Individual issue against a repeat master.
  • Inactive - Displays whether a medication is inactive or not. Select Filter to hide inactive items.

  • Clinician - Displays the clinician that recorded the entry. Entries made in a Shared Care Setting display the Shared Care clinician.

Note - If you are recording the first saved entry of this consultation with the patient, the Consultation screen displays. Complete as appropriate, see Consultations for details.

To record medication:

  1. From the Therapy screen, enter the drug details required in Add new drug search term and select Search :

    Training Tip - You can search on a combination of drug name and strength.
  2. Select the medication and the Therapy form displays:

    PA_Therapy_Form

    Complete as required:

    • Date - Defaults to today's date, update as required.
    • Quantity - Enter the quantity required.
    • Preparation - Update the preparation if required.
    • Repeat - Tick to turn this into a Repeat Master if required and enter the number of issues you are authorising.
      Note - Leave Repeat unticked if this is an acute.
    • Dosage - Enter the dosage required.
  3. Select Save save to save and close the entry.
Note - Medication entries that have been printed cannot be edited or deleted.
Note - To print this topic select Print in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.