Dispensing New Prescriptions (England)

Prescriptions can be dispensed either individually or as a prescription grouping from the Prescriptions - New screen, select a topic below to expand the section:

Selecting an Individual Prescription to Dispense

  1. Identify the prescription to dispense.

    You can search, sort and filter the prescriptions, see Searching for, Sorting and Filtering New Prescriptions (England).

  2. Select DISPENSE to the right of the prescription.

    Training Tip - You do not need to select the prescription to dispense individually.

  3. The Dispensary screen displays, dispense as normal, see Dispensing an Electronic Prescription.

    Note - If Fast Labelling is enabled, the following are pre-populated: Patient, Prescriber, Written As, Quantity and Directions. See Fast Labelling for details.
    Note - If the prescriptions have been clinically checked upfront, the warnings are pre-confirmed on the Dispensary screen. However if anything is changed during the dispensing process, such as selecting a different item with a different dm+d code, an additional warning may display that needs to be confirmed before continuing.

Selecting a Group of Prescriptions to Dispense

Note - You can only group dispense prescriptions for patients that are either fully or partially matched to the same patient record.

  1. Select the prescriptions to dispense, either individually or chose the column to select all.

    You can search, sort and filter the prescriptions, see Searching for, Sorting and Filtering New Prescriptions (England).

  2. Select BATCH DISPENSE .

  3. The Dispensary screen displays, dispense as normal, see Dispensing an Electronic Prescription.

    Note - If Fast Labelling is enabled, the following are pre-populated: Patient, Prescriber, Written As, Quantity and Directions. See Fast Labelling for details.
    Note - If the prescriptions have been clinically checked upfront, the warnings are pre-confirmed on the Dispensary screen. However if anything is changed during the dispensing process, such as selecting a different item with a different dm+d code, an additional warning may display that needs to be confirmed before continuing.
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