Pharmacy Services Release 1.2

Summary of Changes

April 2022

Pharmacy Services release 1.2 contains the following new features and improvements:

• Urgent Medicines Supply - The following changes have been made to Urgent Medicines Supply Referrals:

  • Exemption Category - You must now add an exemption reason in Exemption Category when a patient is exempt from paying for prescriptions:

    

  • Medication Not Supplied - Other Reason - You must now enter details in the free text field when selecting Other as the reason why medication was not supplied to the patient:

    

  See Urgent Medicines Supply for more information.

• Creating a Manual Referral - You can now select the referral originator from the following list:

  • Ambulance Service

  • Emergency Department

  • GP Practice

  • GP Practice (online)

  • NHS 111 Online

  • NHS 111 Service

  • Urgent Treatment Centre

  See Creating a Manual Pharmacy First Referral for more information.