Therapy Reauthorisation Change Reasons

If your therapy settings are configured to select an inactivation/reactivation reason, see Settings - Therapy Tab in the Management Tools Help Centre, you must select between one and four reasons from the Inactivation Reason screen.

To reauthorise a therapy item:

  1. From Consultation Manager, select the patient required and then the Therapy tab.
  2. Select Reauthorise .
    Note - If you select more than one item, you are unable to allocate any additional reauthorisation change reasons.
  3. The Reauthorisation Change Reason screen displays:

    Tick up to four reasons for inactivation in the correct order, most appropriate first.

    Note - It is important you select the reauthorisation reasons in the order of relevance, they are listed in the patient's record in selected order and the initial selection is coded for GP2GP transmission purposes. Any subsequent reasons selected transmit as text for GP2GP. If you select them in the wrong order, simply deselect them and then select in the correct order.
  4. Enter any extra details, up to 192 additional characters, in Additional text.
  5. Select OK to save.

Scotland only

For electronic Chronic Medication Services (CMS) items:

  • Not printed - When you reauthorise a CMS items marked as Not printed, you are offered the option to assign from one to four inactivation reasons with additional text if required:

  • Items sent to the Community Pharmacy - When you reauthorise and change a CMS item that has been sent to the community pharmacy, you can only select three additional reasons, Cancellation and Reauthorisation are attributed to the change automatically:

Note - To print this topic select Print in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.