Acute Medication Service Consent - Scotland
Patient consent for participation in the Acute Medication Service (AMS) scheme of ePharmacy is assumed, though it can be withdrawn (patient consent for future Chronic Medication Service will not be assumed).
Consent can be recorded from Consultation Manager - Patient Details - Preferences or from the Consent tab within Registration. The Registration Consent may be more convenient for admin staff to record consent, rather than starting a consultation in Consultation Manager.
Note - You should not have the same patient open in Consultation Manager and Registration at the same time if you are recording consent.
- From the Consent tab, you should see the AMS consent listed under Preferred Pharmacy, with the words Patient consents to - The sending of AMS prescriptions electronically. If instead you see the message "This patient is not eligible for this feature", then it is most likely that that patient has no CHI number recorded in Registration.
- Click on the Change button to display the ePharmacy Consent form.
- On the ePharmacy Consent screen, the box Send eAMS prescriptions is ticked if the patient consents to electronic prescriptions.
- If the patient withdraws consent or wants to opt out, remove the tick from SendeAMS prescriptions and click on Save. If a patient opts out of AMS, then no barcode is printed on the prescription form and no electronic message transmitted to EPMS.
