Pharmacy Services Release 8.0

Summary of Changes

Pharmacy Services release 8.0 contains the following new features and improvements:

Pharmacy First

• Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) - Minor Illness/Clinical Pathways referrals sent by GPs to your pharmacy, now display automatically on the Pharmacy First - Referrals screen and can be identified by the reference ID, for example, 'PF-BARS-105':

  

• BaRS Referrals - Patient Informant Details - When included in the BaRS Referral sent from a GP, a Patient Informant Details section displays on the Referral Details and Referral Summary screens once a referral is completed. The details include the Name, Relationship and Phone Number of the informant(s):

  

• BaRS Referrals - Birth Sex - When included in the BaRS Referral sent from a GP, a patient's Birth Sex now displays on the Patient Details section of a BaRS Referral as well as the patient's Gender:

  

Flu Vaccination

• Vaccine Type - You are now prompted to record the Vaccine Type as NHS or Private prior to selecting an Eligible Patient Group.

  Note - The Eligible Patient Group section does not display when selecting Private.
  See Flu Vaccination Service - Eligibility for details.

• Default Private Vaccine - You can now save a default vaccine for private patients.

  See Flu Vaccination Service - Delivery for details.

• Administered by Role - You can now select Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician as the administering clinician's role, or the role of the clinician who made the decision not to administer the vaccination:

  

  See Flu Vaccination Service - Delivery for details.

This release also includes some background fixes and improvements to Pharmacy Services.