Chronic Medication Service (CMS) Patient Status

A Chronic Medication Service (CMS) agreement is an agreement between the patient and the Community Pharmacy within which the patient is agreeing to share clinical data to support their healthcare. Once the patient has has this agreement in place, an electronic registration notification is sent from the Pharmacy to the message store, which is then retrieved by the practice and used to update the patient’s CMS status. Vision 3 retrieves messages on a daily basis, see Chronic Medication Service (CMS) Message Management for details.

If a patient decides that they no longer wish to be part of the CMS scheme, they are entitled to withdraw by notifying the pharmacy. Once the pharmacy updates their system, a withdrawal message is sent and retrieved in much the same way as the original message.

Note - Patients can change their pharmacy as soon as they have withdrawn from their previous pharmacy. If a patient withdraws and still has outstanding CMS prescriptions, neither the previous nor the new community pharmacist is authorised to dispense such items.

For you to issue a CMS prescription the patient must be eligible. You are also able to flag potential patients as suitable for CMS to help with your records, but this has no bearing on CMS prescribing.

See Eligible/Not Eligible, Chronic Medication Service (CMS) Patient Suitability, Chronic Medication Service (CMS) Registration Status and Viewing CMS (Serial Prescribing) Registration Status and Suitability for further details.
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