Other Options

• Print Re-order form - Tick to include a re-order form in the next finalise or re-print operation.
• Print Age - Mandatory so always selected.
• Nominate - If the patient has no nominated pharmacy, then this option is disabled and unchecked. If the patient has a nominated pharmacy, the tick box is checked. Remove the tick to change all active prescriptions to non-nominated which could convert electronic prescriptions into paper.
• Prescriber To Sign - A single prescriber is selected during any given print or ETP operation. This prescriber is set as the author within the prescription message, and is required to re-authenticate during the signing process.
• Assign To - This applies to electronic prescriptions and denotes the intended member of staff who is next in line to process the prescriptions. This defaults to the same as the signer, though it is possible to assign the patient’s prescriptions to another member of staff if required. The selection is stored against the prescription record and used by the bulk prescribing view to produce the list of prescriptions to process.
• Prescription Notes - Allows you to add a note to be conveyed to the prescriber (ie if you are an administrative member of staff adding items to the patient record which need signing). Typically, this holds details of a requested change to the prescribed items. This uses the existing Vision 3 reminders system and is shown alongside other reminders in the usual way.

• Show prescriptions from last - Above the prescription list is a new date range filter, so you can optionally list scripts within a recent date range on a tab, for example, the Recent tab, if you want to reprint an item. Each tab has a different period displayed: Active = 2 days, ie today and yesterday; Recent tab = last 28 days; All = last 6 months. You can change the period by typing abbreviations such as 10d (10 days), 4w (4 weeks), 6m (6 months) or 1y (one year) (note, it only displays items from when Prescription Manager was switched on, if this was sooner).
• Clear - clears the date range control. Date filters are removed from the list.
• Select / Deselect All - Select all prescription items, or deselect all.
• Refresh - refreshes the message status manually.
• Finalise or F9 - Select to send and/or print the prescription and its message. Acute and repeat issues print on different prescriptions (this differs from practices who are not using EPS where acute and repeat issues print on the same prescription).
• Right click on a line lets you choose either Key which lists the drug type icons ( ) or Properties. This shows the DM+D code for that item - only items with DM+D codes are included in EPS while those without such codes continue to be printed as paper prescriptions.

• Drug Labels - If you want to print the dispensing label at the same time as the prescription, make sure this is selected.  It is automatically ticked if the patient is marked as Dispensing in Registration. 
• Bag Labels - For dispensing practices who want to print a non-drug-specific bag label to hold the patient's dispensed items, check the Bag Labels box.  The default number of labels to be printed is set in Modules - Drug Label Design, but you can edit the number here.