Pharmacy Manager Release 16.4

Summary of Changes

Pharmacy Manager release 16.4 introduces the following features and improvements:

England Only

• Reimbursements - The EPS Items & Forms and Paper Items & Forms tables now include two new columns, Forms Totals and Items Totals:

  

  See Viewing and Navigating the Reimbursements screen for details.

• Expiring EPS - The Dashboard Expiring claim tile is renamed to Expiring EPS, this now displays all prescriptions expiring within the next 28 days regardless of status:

  

  See Navigating the Pharmacy Manager Dashboard (England) for details.

• Batch Clinical Check Prompts - When performing a clinical check for a patient, you are now prompted if there are unselected prescriptions with a status of Requires Check. This enables you to batch check all prescriptions for a patient at the same time:

  

  See Clinical Check - Manual (England) for details.

• Hypertension - The following changes are made for the Pharmacy Services Hypertension Case-Finding Service:

  • Individual Suspension - You can now stop the Hypertension eligibility label from printing for a patient, for example if the service is already delivered or the patient does not want it.

    See Hypertension Case-Finding (England only) for details.

  • Bulk Removal of Suspension Flag - This bulk operation removes the Hypertension label suspension flag from all patients, making them eligible for Hypertension prompting again:

    

    See Bulk Operation - Remove Hypertension Label Suspension Flag for details.

• NMS Catch up Report - The NMS Catch up Report now includes the patient's Mobile Number. You can easily export the New Medicine Service (NMS) report to review patients who have eligible new medicines for the first time within a set date range.

  See New Medicine Service (NMS) Catch up Report for details.

• Pharmacy First (Formerly CPCS) Referrals - The New CPCS Referral alerts are now renamed to New Pharmacy First Referral:

  

• NHS Services Dashboard Tile - The NHS Services dashboard tile is updated:

  

  • NHS Profile Updater - Link is updated to https://www.nhs.uk/our-policies/profile-editor-login/.

  • Summary Care Record (SCR) - Summary Care Record (SCR) is renamed to National Care Records Service (NCRS) and link updated to https://portal.spineservices.nhs.uk/nationalcarerecordsservice/.

All Countries

• Clinical Check - We have updated the look of the Clinical Check module, see below for details:

  • Clinical Check - Manual (England)

  • Clinical Check - Manual (Scotland)

  • Clinical Check - Manual (Wales)

Scotland only

• Useful Links Dashboard Tile - The link to Part 7 Drug Tariff in the Useful Links tile is updated to https://www.cps.scot/drugtariff/part7.

Coming Soon

We have introduced a new Monitored Dosage System (MDS) module for patients registered in nursing or retirement homes as well as patients living at home who require dosage monitoring.