022 Meds Management Overview

Overview

The EMIS search folder 022 Meds Management brings together groups of searches and reports under the umbrella of medicines monitoring.  This set of searches cover an expanding range of topics.

Additional support articles linked below will help you to use these searches and reports to target patients who may require attention, and to reduce some of the labour intensive aspects of checking various data points when reviewing the record. 

If you find a medicines management area that could benefit from some searches and reports, Primary Care IT can help! Submit a support ticket with the requirements for the development team to review.

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Benefits

Our Meds Management searches and reports can help to:

1. Carry out safe prescribing; by having searches to backup your prescribing actions, you can ensure that patients do not slip through the net.
   
2. Prepare for CQC inspections; some of the CQC target searches look at prescribing activity. Ensure that patients are regularly reviewed and unsafe combinations are reviewed or stopped before the Practice receives notice of an inspection.
   
3. Save time and effort; the searches and reports are created in a way to provide users with as much relevant information as possible to save looking through individual patient records. The support articles and other training materials will support the user to work through them as efficiently as possible. There is also no need to spend time creating your own searches or reports to support these QOF indicators.

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Resources

Below are the population reporting (search) folders which you will find in your practice (if you are a subscriber to this product) under the Meds Management heading search folder. Click the links below to go to the support articles which will help you understand and work through these searches and reports.

Folder	Description
Antibiotic prescribing	Identifying patients prescribed antibiotics in the last 2 months. Useful for prescribing audits.
Bisphosphonate	Identifying patients on bisphosphonates to ensure they are being monitored safely
Catheters and Stomas	Identifying patients with any recent catheter or stoma product issue. May be useful when auditing appropriate and cost-effective appliance prescribing.
DOAC and valvular AF	Identifying patients with a heart valve defect or replacement who are on a DOAC.
HRT	Reviewing patients on HRT to check monitoring compliance
Infant formula	Children prescribed infant formula
Insomnia	The Insomnia searches are designed to identify patients who have been prescribed a Z drug (Zopiclone or Zolpidem) in the last 3 months to help monitor prescribing safely.
Minocycline	Identifying patients prescribed minocycline who may be having it to treat acne.
OneDrugRisk	Supporting management of high risk drugs which require frequent monitoring
Warfarin control	Reviewing INR results for patients on warfarin

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• 022 Meds Management: Catheters and Stomas

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• 022 Meds Management: HRT

  The Hormone Replacement Therapy searches are designed to identify patients on HRT medication who require annual monitoring. The HRT folder forms part of 022 Meds Management Patients on HRT should be monitored at least annually. The report pulls out ...

• 022 Meds Management: Minocycline

  The Minocycline searches are designed to identify patients who have been prescribed minocycline in the last 3 months to help monitor prescribing safely. The Minocycline folder forms part of 022 Meds Management There is no role for minocycline in the ...

• 022 Meds Management: Bisphosphonate

  The Bisphosphonate prescribing searches are designed to identify patients who are currently prescribed a bisphosphonate medication on repeat, and have had an issue in the last 3 months. The Bisphosphonate folder forms part of 022 Meds Management ...

• 022 Meds Management: Insomnia

  The Insomnia searches are designed to identify patients who have been prescribed a Z drug (Zopiclone or Zolpidem) in the last 3 months to help monitor prescribing safely. The Insomnia folder forms part of 022 Meds Management The search contains ...