>> Ho hum - only a few weeks to retirement.
>
> If we find a suitable brand I do include it in the dosage
> instructions - I suppose that would help? Not that any of our local
> Pharmacies use ETP yet!
Some GP systems (certainly TPP SystmOne) will allow you to prescribe at dm+d
AMPP (actual medical product pack) level which will allow prescribing of a
particular brand or manufacturer. AMPP's are often excluded from picking
lists as in is not generally desirable to prescribe a particular brand of
generic and it may require some extra keystrokes to get them to display. I a
pretty confident that this approach will work with ETP.
I am also not sure why EMIS is not picking up the sensitivity to the
excipient, maybe their drug data doesn't include excipients I believe other
drug databases do. If an sensitivity to an excipient is recorded and
automatic checking is not supported it seem to me that the system should
warn of the recorded sensitivity when any attempt is made to prescribe or
there is a danger of a user assuming a check has occurred when it has not.
Might be slightly irritating to get excessive warnings, but better than
prescribe a drug with an excipient to which the patient has a serious
sensitivity and there won't be that many patients with a recorded
sensitivity to an excipient.
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