Clinical Check - Automated (Scotland)

A patient's electronic prescription can be automatically clinically checked, pre-confirming any warnings, contraindications and interactions upfront, allowing you to quickly finish the dispense and print the labels.

To enable Automated Clinical Check, see Pharmacy Details - Automated Clinical Check.

Once Automated Clinical Check is enabled, if you download a prescription where:

  • The patient is partially or fully matched to a local patient,

  • The medication on the prescription has been previously manually clinically checked in the time-frame set in Automated Clinical Check Activation,

  • The directions, quantity and cautions have not changed since the last manual check,

  • There are no new major or minor warnings.

The prescription displays a status of Checked - Auto:

Training Tip - You can still manually clinically check a prescription with the status of Checked - Auto, see Clinical Check - Manual (England) for details.

However, if you download a prescription where:

  • The patient is unmatched,

  • The patient has not had the items on the prescription before,

  • There are new major or minor alerts,

  • There is a change to the DM+D code of the prescribed item,

  • There has been a change in the prescribed directions or prescribed quantity,

  • The previous prescription has not been manually clinically checked in the time-frame set in Automated Clinical Check Activation, or

  • The prescription contains a controlled drug,

The prescription displays a status of Requires Check and a manual clinical check is required:

See Clinical Check - Manual (England) for details.
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