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CMS (Serial Prescribing) Registration and Patient Status
CMS (Serial Prescribing) registration is an agreement between the patient and the Community Pharmacy within which the patient is agreeing to share clinical data to support their healthcare. Once the patient has registered at a pharmacy for CMS (Serial Prescribing), an electronic registration notification is sent from the Pharmacy to the message store, which is then retrieved by the practice and used to update the patient’s CMS (Serial Prescribing) registration status. Vision retrieves registration messages on a daily basis (see CMS (Serial Prescribing) Message Management).
If a patient decides that they no longer wish to be part of the CMS (Serial Prescribing) scheme, they are entitled to withdraw by notifying the pharmacy. Once the pharmacy updates their system, a withdrawal message is sent and retrieved in much the same way as the original registration message.
Note - Patients can register at another pharmacy as soon as they have deregistered/withdrawn from their previous pharmacy. If a patient withdraws and still has outstanding CMS (Serial Prescribing) prescriptions, neither the previous nor the new community pharmacist is authorised to dispense such items.
For you to issue a CMS (Serial Prescribing) prescription the patient must be eligible and registered. You are also able to flag potential patients as suitable for CMS (Serial Prescribing) to help with your records, but this has no bearing on CMS (Serial Prescribing) prescribing.
