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Additional Information from Therapy – Add

The Additional Information buttonon the Therapy Add screen lets you add Information for Patient notes which print on the right hand side of the prescription and Information for Dispenser notes which print on the left hand side of the prescription under drug dosage:

Information for Patient

The Information for Patients section lets you add in your own free text which prints on the right-hand side of a prescription form. For instance, you might want to remind the patient to book a blood test before the next prescription or appointment.

  • Adding a note on a Therapy Add screen will print a one-off for this patient when the prescription is printed.
  • To add a free text note permanently to a drug item so it is printed for all patients, use drug defaults (see Drug defaults: dosage, quantity, etc).

See also Repeat Therapy Reorder Form Set-up for permanent messages printed on the right-hand side of prescriptions. You can also print advice on the right-hand side of prescriptions - see Print advice for non-drug therapy items on prescriptions

To enter the note, click on this button (or Alt-z, and type in the free text in the Information for Patient screen.

Information for Dispenser

The Information for Dispenser section of the Additional Information screen allows you to type free text for the dispenser which prints on the left hand side of the prescription under the drug dosage. For English practices using Electronic Prescribing, these notes are sent as part of the electronic prescription message.

When you exit, the Additional Information button is ticked, and if you hover with the mouse over the button, a yellow pop-up shows the text you have entered.

On the Journal tab of Patient Record, up to nine lines of the note text are shown with the Therapy entry by the heading Notes for patient or Notes for Dispenser – if more lines than that, the word MORE... is shown in the right-hand column; click on this for the full text.

The note(s) is also stored in the Dosage column on the Therapy List screen, and appears after the dosage text. You may need to widen the column to see it in full (click on Dosage heading at column header, then point cursor at dividing line between next column header, and drag this line to increase the column width).

Added in this way, the Information for Patient prints on this patient's prescription form on the right-hand side and the Information for Dispenser notes on the left, under the drug dosage.