Synchronising Repeats

A patient's repeat medication can be synchronised to the same repeat until date and issue frequency to simplify medication reviews.

1. Open a patient record, see Patient Summary for details if required.
2. Scroll to the right to access the Medication details.
3. Select the Medication > heading and the medication view displays.
4. Select Reauthorise and a list of valid drugs for reauthorisation displays.
5. Review the drugs, and select exclude to remove any drugs not required.

   

6. Select Reauthorise and the Synchronise Repeats view displays.
   Note - If you do not want to synchronise the repeats you can proceed by selecting reauthorise , without selecting the treatment duration and issue frequency options.
7. Select the Treatment duration from the drop-down list, this ranges from 1 month to 12 months.

   

8. Choose the Issue frequency from the drop-down list. The available options depend on the Treatment duration chosen, see Duration and Issue Frequency for details.
9. The quantity of drugs for the issue frequency, for example, monthly, calculates supply based on the daily quantity. Treatment duration, for example, 6 months, updates the Repeat Until date.
   Note - Not all medication can be automatically synchronised, and alerts display additional information, see Synchronisation Alerts for details.
10. Review the quantities, the dosage instructions can be changed by selecting the dosage box.
    Note - A drug can be removed by unchecking the Sync box, this is still reauthorised.
11. Select Reauthorise to proceed.
12. Select each drug to review the prescriber warnings.

    

    If you wish to change the medication, select Cancel return to the previous screen.

13. Select Save to finish.

A confirmation message "Reauthorisation complete" displays at the top of the screen to indicate successful reauthorisation, if reauthorisation fails, an alert displays, see Synchronisation Failed for details.