Clinical Check - Automated (England)

A patient's electronic prescription can be automatically clinically checked, pre-confirming any warnings, contraindications and interactions upfront, allowing you to quickly finish the dispense and print the labels.

To enable Automated Clinical Check, see Pharmacy Details - Automated Clinical Check for details.

Once Automated Clinical Check is enabled, if you download a prescription where:

  • The patient is partially or fully matched to a local patient,

  • The medication on the prescription has been previously manually clinically checked in the time-frame set in Automated Clinical Check Activation,

  • The directions, quantity and cautions have not changed since the last manual check,

  • There are no new major or minor warnings.

The prescription displays a status of Checked - Auto:

Training Tip - You can still manually clinically check a prescription with the status of Checked - Auto, see Clinical Check - Manual (England) for details.

However, if you download a prescription where:

  • The patient is unmatched,

  • The patient has not had the items on the prescription before,

  • There are new major or minor alerts,

  • There is a change to the DM+D code of the prescribed item,

  • There has been a change in the prescribed directions or prescribed quantity,

  • The previous prescription has not been manually clinically checked in the time-frame set in Automated Clinical Check Activation, or

  • The prescription contains a controlled drug,

The prescription displays a status of Requires Check and a manual clinical check is required:

See Clinical Check - Manual (England) for details.

Automated Clinical Check History

Where prescriptions are automatically clinically checked the following displays:

  • Clinical Check History displays System - Auto under Completed By:

  • Patient Details - History displays a Type of Acknowledgement - Auto:

  • The Patient History report displays an Event of Acknowledgement - Auto:

Note - If an automated clinically checked prescription is reset, it needs to be manually checked.

Printing Dispensing Tokens after an Automated Clinical Check

If a dispensing token is printed after an automated clinical check has taken place, and the clinical check module is restricted to a user with a role of Pharmacist, Checked - Auto and the date of the check display on the dispensing token:

See Restricting the Clinical Check Module for details.
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