Print Advice for Non-drug Therapy Items on Prescriptions

You may want to issue advice to a patient without prescribing on a prescription, for example, advising them to buy aspirin over the counter. This can then be printed on the right-hand side of a prescription form, without having to prescribe anything.

You can do this by making an entry of your own free text on the Advice Given screen. An advice record is written first, then you press F9 to print it out.

1. First enter the advice offered. Select Add - Advice.
2. At the Advice Given - Add screen, change the Type of advice given to Therapy.
3. Type the advice you want to give in the Notes section.
4. If relevant, select an option from Advice: Alcohol, Smoking, Diet, Family History, Breast self-examination, Testes self-examination, Menopause Counselling, Risk of CVD, Exercise.
5. Click OK.
6. Press <F9> for the Print Therapy screen. In the bottom half of the screen, under Non-Drug Therapy Items, you should see the text you have typed against today's date.
7. Press <F9> again to print it out on the right-hand side of a prescription.