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Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
Prescribing
Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
User Defined Preparations (Recipes)
Add User Defined Preparations (Recipes) to the drug database for extemporaneous preparations.
Create a New Recipe
Create a new recipe that any prescriber at your practice can use.

Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
- Actions
  An action is a record of something that was done or is to be done for a patient.
- Progress Notes
  Record notes about a patient's visit in Progress Notes.
- Select Drug
  Contains all compounds currently available in the country of use (currently Australia), and includes all scheduled compounds, and the majority of 'over-the-counter' preparations.
- Prescribing
  Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
  - Creating New Prescriptions
    Use Clinical to write prescriptions.
  - Influenza Vaccinations
  - Drug Interaction Checking
    When clinicians prescribe a new medication to a patient, Clinical performs conditions, allergies, drugs, medical history and so on.
  - Old Scripts
  - Managing and Modifying Current Prescriptions
  - Electronic Prescribing
    Patients can receive prescriptions electronically (ePrescriptions).
  - PBS/RPBS Restricted Benefit Medications
  - Printing Batches of Scripts
  - Drug Protocols
  - Drug Quantity, Duration, and Repeats
  - Real Time Prescription Monitoring
    If your site is integrated with eRx, Clinical can be configured so that whenever a monitored medicine is prescribed and the prescription is about to be saved, the information is validated by the state's real time prescription monitoring service against the National Data Exchange (NDE) using eRx.
  - Route of Administration
    Record a route of administration for medications.
  - Stored Text (Clinical Glossary)
  - User Defined Preparations (Recipes)
    Add User Defined Preparations (Recipes) to the drug database for extemporaneous preparations.
    - Create a New Recipe
      Create a new recipe that any prescriber at your practice can use.
  - Active Ingredient Prescribing (AIP)
    Prescriptions created in MedicalDirector Clinical meet the requirements of the Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation (2019).
- Examinations
- Recalls
  A recall is a type of flag recorded against a patient's record to inform practitioners or practice staff of when a patient is due to return to the practice, usually so that some clinical procedure can be performed.
- Patient's Medical History
  History includes a patient's medical conditions, both active and inactive.
- Investigations
  Manage pathology, cytology, and medical imaging requests and results.
- Immunisations
  Manage a patient's immunisations.
- Preventive Health Prompting for Specific Patients
  Customise preventive health prompts for specific patients in the following areas, such as blood glucose, blood pressure, smoking and so.
- Assessments
- Cervical Screening
- Obstetrics Module
  Record and manage a patient's obstetric information on the Obstetrics tab.
- Diabetes Module
- Summaries
  Print summaries for patients.
- Measurements
  The Clinical measurements window displays the history of a patient's various clinical measurements.
- MedicalDirector Care
  Create Care Plans in MedicalDirector.
- Telehealth
  Consult with patients remotely.
- Honeysuckle Health Private Health Insurance Checker
- Tools
- Surgical Audit Tool
  Use the Surgical Audit Tool to record information about surgical procedures.
- Medication Charts
  Print a variety of Medication Charts from Clinical.

Create a New Recipe

Create a new recipe that any prescriber at your practice can use.

Before you begin

There is no Allergy or interaction checking on with Recipes. This check needs to be performed when a recipe is created.

About this task

Create a new recipe for the practice in the Extemporaneous Preparation panel from the User Defined Preparations window.

Procedure

To add a new recipe:

In the User Defined Preparations window, click Add.
In the Extemporaneous Preparation panel, provide a new recipe information in the following fields:
- Item Name - enter a distinctive and descriptive name for the item (for example, Psoriasis cream). This name can be searched for in the same way as any other drug when prescribing from the drug list.
- Form - choose the form of the recipe from the list.
- Recipe - enter the ingredients and method in the Recipe box. This section will be printed on the prescription.
- Quantity and Repeats - provide the required Quantity and Repeats in the fields respectively.
- Availability - set PBS status. Setting PBS does not mean that it will be interpreted that way by the pharmacist.
- RPBS - set this option if the recipe is available as an RPBS item.
Click Save.

Results

A newly added recipe is displayed in the User Defined Preparations list in the same way as standard drugs and can be prescribed without taking any extra steps.

Example

If the letters PSO are entered when adding a new drug to a patient's list, PSORIASIS CREAM is displayed in the list along with any MDref items starting with those letters.

17 August 2026