Private Prescriptions

You can issue and print Private Prescriptions from Consultation Manager.

To create a private prescription:

1. From Consultation Manager, select the patient required in the usual way. See Selecting a Patient for details if required.

2. Select the Therapy tab and simply start typing or press F8 on your keyboard, the Therapy - Add screen displays.

3. Complete the Therapy - Add screen in the usual way, see Adding and Printing an Acute Prescription for details if required.

4. Tick Private:

   

5. Select OK to save.

6. press F9 on your keyboard twice to issue and print in the usual way.

Private prescriptions print on the right hand side of a script and [PRIVATE PRESCRIPTION] prints after each item:

Please note the following:

• Patients with a registration status of Private automatically have a tick in Private.

• If you select a non-NHS item for a patient, a warning displays giving you the opportunity to re-select the item before issuing, if you continue, it issues as a private prescription.

• Once added, a private prescription cannot be updated to an NHS prescription, you must delete the incorrect therapy item and then add a correct one.

• It is not possible to add private prescriptions for nurse prescribers. A warning displays if a nurse prescriber selects either a non-NHS item or to prescribe for a private patient.