Setting up prescribers

Before anyone can request a prescription, set up who prescribes for your clinic in Settings > Prescribing. The page has three parts, plus the emergency kit register.

Clinic prescribers

The Prescribers table lists your active staff with a Yes or No badge. Press Make prescriber next to a qualified team member, or Remove prescriber to take it away. Only staff marked as prescribers can approve prescription requests addressed to them, and only they can be named as a treatment's supervising prescriber.

External prescribers

If a prescriber outside your clinic consults your patients face-to-face and signs prescriptions themselves, add them under External prescribers: their name and registration number are required, and you can record an email and phone. They then appear as an option when building a request. Edit their details inline and press Save, or Archive a prescriber you no longer work with.

Prescription items

The Prescription items catalogue is the list of medicines offered as suggestions when building a request, for example Botulinum toxin type A 100u. Add the items you commonly request so requests are consistent and quick to build; rename or archive items at any time.

One rule that never changes

However prescribers are set up, approval always requires a face-to-face consultation with the patient. There is no remote-signing option, by design. See also the article on the emergency kit register and treatment supervision.