Adding Medication Reviews

Medication Reviews can be added from:

  • New, or

  • Existing Medication Reviews.

To add a new Medication Review:

  1. From Vision Anywhere, with the correct patient selected, either:

    • From the Patient Banner, select Options - Create medication review.

      Note - Vision Anywhere automatically creates a Medication management event encounter.

    • Select the appropriate Encounter type and enter 'med rev' into the dynamic search bar. Select Medication review Open quick entry form:

    • From an existing entry, select Medication Review:

    Note - Medication Reviews are only available for patients registered at Cegedim Primary Care Solution practices, to record a Medication Review for a patient registered at an EMIS or TPP practice, use the Clinical Term.

  2. The Medication Review screen displays:

  3. Complete as required:

    • Due date - Defaults to your Vision 3 setting, select the date you want the patient to be reviewed.

      Training Tip - If you are recording a review done today, change this to today's date and don't forget to select Mark as complete.

    • Clinical term for review - Defaults to the selected clinical term, update if required.

    • Notes - Enter any comments required.

    • Date - Defaults to today's date, update as appropriate.

    • Clinician - Defaults to:
      • The clinician logged on, or
      • The Usual GP if a non-clinician is logged in, update if required.
      • In a Shared Care Setting it defaults to the clinician logged on but always write back as 'Dr Federated User', with the actual user’s name in the Notes.

    • Mark as complete - Select to record this medication review as complete.

    • Create follow on medication review - Defaults to selected if you select Mark as complete, a new Medication Review screen displays with a due date of one year, this can be updated as required. If you do not require a follow on review, remove the tick.

  4. Select Save .

If a medication review of the type you are creating already exists, an alert display just under the patient banner:

Select View to update the existing Medication Review and avoid duplication.

See Medication Reviews and Completing Medication Reviews for details.
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