Non-drug Therapy Items or Advice 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. You can print this on the right-hand side of a prescription form, without having to prescribe anything.

To create a non-drug therapy items on a prescription:

  1. From Consultation Manager, select the patient required and if necessary start a Consultation.
  2. Select Add - Advice.
  3. From the Advice Given - Add screen, change the Type of advice given to Therapy:

  4. If relevant, select an option from Advice.
  5. In Notes, enter the advice required.
  6. Select OK to save.
  7. Press F9 on your keyboard, under Non-Drug Therapy Items, the text you have typed against today's date displays.
  8. Press F9 on your keyboard again to print it on the right-hand side of a prescription.
Training Tip - You can also print messages for your patient on the right-hand side of a prescription by using Additional Information .
Note - To print this topic select Print in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.