Pharmacy Services Release 5.0

Summary of Changes

Pharmacy Services release 5.0 contains the following new features and improvements:

All Services

• PDS Retrieval - Telephone number - A Personal Demographics Service (PDS) lookup is now performed to automatically retrieve a patient's telephone number if it is missing from their record.

NMS, Flu Vaccination & Contraception Services

• Adding a New Patient - A Personal Demographics Service (PDS) lookup is now performed to automatically retrieve the patient's details when adding a new patient in Pharmacy Services. If a PDS lookup is not successful, a patient's NHS number cannot be verified and does not display on the patient banner:

  

New Medicine Service (NMS)

• Referred Back to the Prescriber - GP Feedback Form - When adding a medication review to either the NMS Intervention or Follow Up session, and referring the patient back to the prescriber:

  • The Patient's Registered GP Details section now displays:

    

  • A GP Feedback Form is also automatically sent to the patient's registered GP by NHSMail when completing the session:

    

  See NMS Session 2 - Intervention and NMS Session 3 - Follow Up for details.

• NMS Summary screen - Next Session - The appointment details of the next session now display on the summary screen session tile. If required, you can edit the appointment date and time from the session tile:

  

  See NMS Session 1 - Engagement or NMS Session 2 - Intervention for more information.

This release also includes some background fixes and improvements to Pharmacy Services.