Group Populating Patients Suitable or Unsuitable for CMS (Serial Prescribing)

The Populate CMS Suitability function allows you to mark patients as suitable or unsuitable within a specific patient group. You might like to review your chronic disease registers for patients potentially suitable for CMS (Serial Prescribing). You can use the Clinical Audit audit groups to identify chronic disease patients and merge the groups together to create a definitive list of all chronic patients. You might also like to add a reminder to the flagged patients. The best way to do this would be to run the CMS Suitability report (see Report Output) and save the results to a group so that you can bulk add reminders from patient groups.

To populate patients as suitable for CMS (Serial Prescribing):

1. From the Vision front screen, select Utilities - Populate CMS Suitability .
2. The Populate CMS Suitability screen displays:

   

3. Select Select to display the Groups or Clinical Audit Search Browser.
4. Select either:
   • CMS Suitable - for those patients that you want to mark as CMS (Serial Prescribing) suitable
   • CMS Unsuitable - for those patients that you want to mark as CMS (Serial Prescribing) unsuitable

   You can select to 'Include patients with suitability already recorded' by placing a tick in the check box.

5. From the Groups or Clinical Audit Search Browser, select the required group for population. You can also enter a free text reason if desired. Select OK.

   

6. The details of the selected group are displayed, including the number of patients in the group. Select Populate to continue.
7. Before the Suitability population is started, the following warning displays "This option will mark active patients in the selected group as suitable for serial dispensing under CMS. Please note there is no undo facility. Are you sure you wish to continue?" Select Yes to continue.
8. After the population has finished, a confirmation message appears informing you that the population has completed and the number of patients that have been flagged as suitable or unsuitable for CMS (Serial Prescribing).

   

   Note - Patients must be Applied or Permanent and have a valid CHI number to be suitable for CMS (Serial Prescribing).

9. Select OK and then Close to finish.
10. The patients are now flagged as suitable or unsuitable for CMS (Serial Prescribing). This displays in Consultation Manager - Therapy, Consultation Manager - Patient Details and Registration - Consent, see Viewing CMS (Serial Prescribing) Registration Status for details.