Recording Non-allopathic Medication

Any non-allopathic medication your patient is taking, for example, homeopathic medication or Chinese medicine can be viewed and recorded from the Therapy screen.

The Therapy tab has a Non-allopathic therapy option with the number of active qualifying medications indicated in brackets:

Adding Non-allopathic Medication

To add a new non-allopathic medication:

1. From the Vision 3 front screen, select Consultation Manager and find the patient.

2. Select the Therapy tab.

3. Select Non-allopathic therapy.

4. A list displays, select Add Non-allopathic which is always at the top of the list.

5. The Complementary Therapy - Add screen displays:

   

6. Complete as appropriate:

   • Date - Defaults to today, update as appropriate.

   • Clinician - Defaults to the clinician logged on or the Usual GP if you are not a clinician.

   • Read Term - defaults to 8BF..00 Complementary therapy, update from the available list as required.

   • Self medication - Tick if the patient has selected to take this medication themselves.

   • Inactive - Tick if this medication is no longer being taken and you do not want the therapy to display on the Non-allopathic therapy count or list.

   • Notes - Enter the details of the medication plus any other relevant information, for example, dosage.

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Viewing Non-allopathic Medication

To view recorded non-allopathic medication from the Therapy tab:

1. From the Vision 3 front screen, select Consultation Manager and find the patient.

2. Select the Therapy tab.

3. Select Non-allopathic therapy.

4. A list displays, the top item is Add Non-Allopathic, beneath displays the first 30 characters of any active recorded non-allopathic medication. Select from the list to display the relevant Over the Counter Drug Use - Update screen.

If a patient has active non-allopathic therapy on their record, when you add an acute or repeat master the 'Patient has non-allopathic items, these are not included in drug checks' warning displays:

Away from the Therapy tab, Non-allopathic therapy displays on the patient record preceded by a Cane .