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DLM 460 (10/06/2014)

  • New Icon for Electronic Test Requesting - To make it easier to access electronic test requesting, we have added a new Test Requesting button to the Consultation Manager toolbar. See Menu, Toolbar, Shortcuts and Function Keys.
  • Radiology Requests are now included in tQuest Electronic Test Requesting. See tQuest Only - Radiology Test Requests.
  • NHS Specialities Updated - We have updated the NHS speciality lists throughout Vision to match the latest NHS dictionary specialities. The following have been added: Endoscopic, Prosthodontics, Paediatric Cardiology,Tropical Medicine, Community Sexual and Reproductive Health, Public Health. We have also changed Mental Handicap to Learning Disabilities. See NHS and TP(HA)/HB/CSA Speciality Lists.
  • Problems Update - When adding a problem the Current Problem dialogue box now displays the selected data which will be added to the problem. See Adding Existing Items into New Problem.
  • New Cervical Cytology Read codes from Q3 2013 Read Dictionary have been added to the Cervical Cytology structured data area. See Cervical Cytology - READ Codes for Smear Results.
  • QRISK Cardiovascular Calculator - DLM 460 updates the QRISK calculator within Vision to the latest 2013 version. This ensures the QRISK results are as accurate as possible and match the results from the QRISK website. Changes include age range, smoking, Atrial Fibrillation and Diabetes. See CVD Risk and CHD Risk Calculators.
  • Dispensing Label Printing - From DLM 460, all label warnings are be selected for label printing by default. You can deselect non-mandatory warnings that you don't want to print but you are not permitted to deselect any mandatory warnings. See Dispensing Labels and Caution Codes.
  • Bug Fix - Referral - Add Clinician List - Existing staff who also have a previous inactive Vision account are now displayed in the Referral Add Clinician List.
  • Bug Fix - Notepad Keyboard Shortcut - We have reinstated the menu and keyboard shortcut for notepad in Consultation Manager. You can now access this by clicking Add - Notepad or pressing Alt A+N, thus allowing it to be used in macros.
  • Bug Fix - Immunisation - MMR Changes - If you record MMR with a status of Refusal it now clears the immunisation due warning from the Alert section in the navigation pane, the Alert form and the Immunisation screen.
  • Bug Fix - Guideline - When adding a clinical data hotspot for seasonal influenza, the Read code now correctly defaults to 65ED100 Administration of first intranasal seasonal influenza vaccination.

Therapy

  • Therapy display - Highlighting Therapy - When highlighting a therapy item, the details are now displayed in white text.
  • Prescription Name Change - Drug details now list items as NHS or Non NHS rather than FP10/non-FP10 as this was only relevant to England. See Drug Status.
  • Linking Medication to Problems - When adding/reauthorising medication, if problem population is enabled when presented with the Add Problem window, the drug being linked displays. There is a new column and icons to show which repeat items are linked to a problem. See Reauthorising Therapy with an Existing Problem.
  • Force Reauthorise Update - Force reauthorise has been updated to enable all prescribers to reauthorise. See Repeats, Repeat Until, Days Between, Force Reauthorise.
  • Bug Fix - Therapy Replace - Therapy replace has been fixed to correct a problem with drug dosages being changed.
  • Bug Fix (England) - Repeat Until Date Update - For English practices, when logged in with your Smartcard, Vision no longer removes the repeat until date when reauthorising repeat items.

England

Electronic Prescription Service

  • Bug Fix - Individual items from a post dated EPS prescription can no longer be cancelled. See Important Note about Cancelling Post Dated EPS Items.
  • Bug Fix - Bulk Signing Window - A fix has been made to the Bulk Signing window to ensure that when an item is cancelled from an EPS prescription, the details are viewable on the rejection tab. Also, Consultation Manager no longer crashes when selecting "Print as FP10" from the bulk signing window.
  • Bug Fix - Electronic prescriptions with Nominated Appliance Contractors no longer disappear from the Prescription Manager screen.
  • Bug Fix - Reprocessing ETP messages in transmission error no longer results in the message being duplicated and rejected.

GP2GP

  • New Registration Warning Message - When you log into Vision without a Smartcard, you now see a new warning message when you access the Registration module. The warning alerts you that no Smartcard has been detected. See Logging in with your Smartcard.
  • Compound Immunisations - Compound immunisations that form part of a GP2GP message are now broken down into the constituent items and the correct Read code recorded. See Compound Immunisations.

Scotland

ePharmacy (AMS and CMS)

  • Reprinting - We have made some changes to the way you can reprint AMS and CMS prescriptions:
  • When reprinting a prescription, you cannot reprint the prescription if the selected prescriber in Prescription Manager differs from the original signer of the prescription.
  • When reprinting a prescription, if the number of pages used differs from the original, the prescription will not be reprinted.

    See Reprinting Restrictions.

Chronic Medication Service (CMS)

  • Force Re-authorise - Force Re-authorise is now an available option on the CMS Therapy - Add screen. See Adding a CMS Prescription.
  • Bug Fix - CMS reprinting has been fixed, so that only the date of printing is updated.

eCare Alerts

  • eCare Alerts for patients who have transferred out are now rejected by Vision. See eCare.

Emergency Care Summary Management

SCI Diabetic Care

  • To help reduce problems with SCI-DC, invalid Read codes are no longer included in the extract.