The Dispensary Screen

The Dispensary screen is where you do most of your dispensing:

  • Patient -

 

  • Prescriber -

 

  • No Items -

 

  • Prescription type -

 

  • Exemptions - The following exceptions display where appropriate:
    • - Under 16 years of age.
    • - 16, 17 or 18 in full-time education.
    • - 60 years of age or over.
    • - Maternity exemption certificate.
    • - Medical exemption certificate.
    • - Prescription prepayment certificate.
    • - War Pension exemption certificate.
    • - Names on a current HC2 charges certificate.
    • - Prescribed free of charge contraceptives.
    • - Gets Income Support or income related Employment and Support Allowance.
    • - Gets income based Jobseeker's Allowance.
    • - Entitled to, or naled on, a vaild NHS Tax Credit Exemption Certificate.
    • - Has a partner who gets Pension Credit guarantee credit (PCGC).
    • - Pays for their prescription.

Item:

Written as

 

Quantity

 

Cost

 

Dispense as

 

Owe

 

Directions

 

Caution

 

Direction

 

Warnings

 

Endorse

 

Save to pending

Details buttons

A series of buttons appear adjacent to a step that has to be completed on the way to producing a label.

 

By clicking a button, you can move into that area of detail.

 

  • Click the Details button adjacent to the patient name, for example, to see more patient detail. This shortcut access is particularly valuable when you need to refer to a patient's previously medication whilst dispensing.

Abandon

Your system may be set to print labels either after each item, or when the form is complete.

  • To check this, go into

Menu - Tools - User Details - Preferences tab - Print Labels section

  • Select either 'When item complete' or 'When form complete', whichever you prefer.

When operating at the Dispensary tab, by clicking the Abandon button you will abort the prescription in progress whichever preference setting has been made. However, the outcome varies in terms of what is recorded.

When item complete

When operating in this mode, the current label in progress is immediately abandoned. However, if it is a multi-item prescription and other items have already been labelled, those items are saved in the patient record and the quantities dispensed will still deplete any stock records.

Labels will only have been printed for those items that were completed before you clicked Abandon.

When form complete

When operating in this mode, this alert will appear when you click Abandon.

 

If you subsequently confirm Yes, no information is updated in any records:

  • no items are included in the patient history
  • no stock levels are reduced

This applies if you are dispensing a single item prescription and click Abandon part way through. It also applies if you click Abandon when you are dispensing the first or any subsequent item on a multiple item prescription.

 

At the point you click Abandon, no labels will have been printed.

 

If you click No, you revert to the prescription in progress and no information will have been lost.

 

Note - If you enter too high a number in Number of items and want to finish the prescription, you can reduce the Number of items to the current number.

See also Print Labels