Dear gp-uk your thoughts please.
The guys in our practice that go to the MMS collaborative ( to do with medicines) want us to type in the indication for each prescription
fine
this has arisen from the fact that many patients dont know what their medicines are for.
so the aim is to avoid confusion, enhance concordance, and make periodic reviews of medication more meaningful
fine so far;
except this means that on computers up and down the country, next to the words tabs thyroxine 100 mcg daily 50 000 GPs in UK will be typing in *as thyroid replacement therapy* or some other words; or next to aspirin 75mg daily the said GPs will be typing in - what I wonder?
There is a good case for some simple defaults in the computer drug file picking lists.
What would it take to achieve this? Is there anybody high up of whom I can request it?
our chaps say that emis wont do it; but it isnt a problem in emis because when a GP has done it once for any patient that option will be stored and available to the GP for the next time / the next patient.
However it is the initial duplication/multiplication of effort that I resent and the waste of time. when it could be avoided. 30 seconds x 50 000 (GPs) x 400 (commonest prescribed items)
Lots of hours.
My argument is that since MMS the medicines collaborative is proposing a systematic change in the way we do things, there should be a systems solution or at least systems support.
any comments?
mary
Dr Mary Anderson MRCGP
Heaton Moor Medical Centre
SK4 4NX
tel 0161 432 0671
fax 0161 442 1025
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