Adding a Medication Review

To add a medication review:

  1. From Consultation Manager, select the patient required and start a consultation if required.
  2. Either:
    • Select Add - Medication Review, remember you can use <Alt+A> then <Alt+RR> if using the keyboard.

    or

    • Select the Therapy tab and then, depending on whether a Medication Review already exists, select either:
      • Add Medication Review

      or

      • Medication review Due (date) .

  1. The Medication Review - Add/Update screen displays:

  1. Complete as follows:
    • Set Up Date - Defaults to today's date, update as required.
    • Clinician - Defaults to the staff member or GP signed on for the current session, update as required.
    • Read Term for Review - Defaults to 8B3S. Medication Review, select from the available list as required.
    • Review Due Date - Defaults to the time frame specified on the Therapy tab of Consultation - Setup, see Consultation Manager Setup - Therapy, update as required.
    • Reviewing Clinician - Defaults to the person who set up the review, not the person currently logged on, update as required.
    • Review Done - Ticked by default, indicating you have completed a medication review, and set a date for the the next one. Remove the tick to indicate a review has yet to be completed.
    • Date of Review - If Review Done is ticked, defaults to today's date, update as required.
    • Next Review Date - Disabled until Review Done is ticked, defaults to the Date Offset in Consultation Manager Setup - Therapy, see Consultation Manager Setup - Therapy for details.
    • Notes - Enter free text if required. Notes are copied to future medication reviews, they can be added to or changed.
  2. Select OK to save and close.
Note - You do not need to add a medication review for each repeat that a patient is on, one medication review with a generic Read code can serve for all of them. However, from a nGMS contract point of view, you do need to enter specific medication review codes for asthma and epilepsy.
Important - Once a patient has a medication review set up you should not add a new review each time, simply double click the existing one when it becomes due, complete it and set the next review date from there.