Medical Staff Users: Outpatient prescribing

Introduction

There is little to add at this stage which has not been covered by the above sections. The prescriptions will be transmitted to Pharmacy, which one depending on the clinic in which the prescription has been created.

From the experience of the roll out of OCS at the Trust, I would expect this to be the path of most resistance....

Additional system requirements

  1. The prescribing interface will be the standard interface.
  2. The system must have a facility to include time of prescribing on the prescription transmitted to Pharmacy
  3. The transmitted prescription must record the prescriber and the clinic of origin.
  4. The system must have the facility to record priority of an outpatient prescription e.g. in the case of transport.
  5. The system must recognise the legal requirements for prescribing controlled drugs.
  6. The system must allow for review and subsequent amendments of prescriptions upto the time of processing/validation by Pharmacy.
  7. The system must notify prescribers when Pharmacy is closed
  8. The system must have the facility to print a hard copy of the prescription.
  9. A patient medication history must be available at the point of prescription
  10. There must be a facility for repeat prescribing
  11. There must be a facility to set the usual duration of prescription in line with the Trust's current policy. This may be overridden governed by password rights.
  12. There should be a facility to interface with our current waiting time software
  13. There should be a facility to note either automatically (by age, condition, previous records) whether a patient is exempt from paying prescription charges
  14. There should in future be a facility to transmit to retail Pharmacies or onto a patient SMART card prescription information.

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