Enabling Pharmacy Nomination
The following Pharmacy Nomination options are available:
- View - Enables your patients to view their preferred pharmacy, and in England they can also see their Electronic Prescription Services (EPS) Nominated Pharmacy.
- Update - England only, enables your patients to update their EPS Nominated Pharmacy which in turn updates the Patient Demographic Service (PDS):
The View and Update (England only) Pharmacy Nomination is enabled by default.
Updating Pharmacy Nomination for your Practice
To update the Online Services - Pharmacy Nomination option for all of your patients:
- From Control Panel - File Maintenance, select Online .
- From Pharmacy Nomination:
- View - Tick/untick to enable/disable your patients ability to see:
- Their Preferred Pharmacy, as set up in Patient Details.
- England only - Both their Preferred Pharmacy and their Nominated EPS Pharmacy.
- Update - England only - To enable/disable your patients ability to update their Nominated EPS Pharmacy:
Note - In England, if you disable/enable Update without enabling/disabling View a message displays and Update is changed automatically. - View - Tick/untick to enable/disable your patients ability to see:
See Enabling Pharmacy Nomination in the Patient Online Services Help Centre for full details.
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