On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 10:26 +0100, Piers Longhorn wrote:
> The PCT have told us that as "good practice" we should be recording when
> we receive a request for a CD repeat, which dr the scrip went for for
> signing, when the signed scrip was returned to reception (and stored
> seperately from other repeat scrips) and finally when it was collected
> and signed for by pt (or their representative with written authorisation
> to do so). Implementing this would create a lot of work. Is anyone else
> doing this?
We do note that it is picked up and I beleive a signature is involved.
It does not yet require a passport, and two people to certify the person
matches the passport.
In an organisation and a state short of money and with a need to reduce
expenses on non-productive and public work, this seems an excessive
proposal if it is to be implemented by hand and in a separate record
system for that we already have.
DOes the person proposing this know:-
1. that GPs use computer systems,
2. that the PCT is responsible for providing software capable of
carrying out all required functions. Passing on their requirement ot
the sources of software for incorporation in due course would be
proportionate.
3. That the rules on CD scripts were recently changed to allow printing
them, rather than requiring handwriting, and that a reason included may
have been the improved recording of where they came from and who
generated them?
A ssytem appears to exist in EMIS for requesting repeats through the
computer system, IE a member of staff or a patient could initiate the
request, with their details (or the details of who is logged on to the
termainl they use) recorded in the audit trail.
A system exists to record who signed a prescription, what for, and where
it was presented. THis is operated by pharmacists, and the PPA, and
that is the more sensible place to record such information, if there is
a desire to do so. It has the advantage that it is detached from the
organisation which is perhaps being dissuaded from diverting
prescriptions.
I suspect the quality and amount of thought involved in the suggestion
could be improved at very little expense or effort.
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