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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.
Creating New Prescriptions
Use Clinical to write prescriptions.
Write a DVA DAA Prescription or Review
Create a DVA prescription with an authority number for a DAA supply or VSMR review.

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.
- Prescribing
  Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
  - Creating New Prescriptions
    Use Clinical to write prescriptions.
    - Write a DVA DAA Prescription or Review
      Create a DVA prescription with an authority number for a DAA supply or VSMR review.
    - Script Codes for Medications
      Script codes for medications.
    - Authority Items
      Record approval numbers for authority medications.
    - Compliance Checking
      Calculate the patient's usage of medication since their last prescription or dispensing.
    - Viewing Deleted / Ceased Medications
    - Resolving 'Disappearing' Medications
    - Medication Favourites
  - Influenza Vaccinations
  - Drug Interaction Checking
  - Old Scripts
  - Managing and Modifying Current Prescriptions
  - Electronic Prescribing
    Patients can receive prescriptions electronically (eScripts).
  - PBS/RPBS Restricted Benefit Medications
  - Printing Batches of Scripts
  - Drug Protocols
  - Drug Quantity, Duration, and Repeats
  - Prescriptions - Real Time Prescription Monitoring
  - Route of Administration
    Record a route of administration for medications.
  - Stored Text (Clinical Glossary)
  - User Defined Preparations (Recipes)
  - 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
- Immunisations
  Use the Imm. tab to manage a patient's immunisations.
- Preventive Health
  The Preventive Health module provides assistance in identifying and preventing issues and potential problems by making suggestions or recommending actions.
- Assessments
- Cervical Screening
- Obstetrics Module
- Diabetes Module
- Summaries
  Clinical provides formatted summaries which can be printed 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.

Write a DVA DAA Prescription or Review

Create a DVA prescription with an authority number for a DAA supply or VSMR review.

About this task

To set up a DVA-funded Dose Administration Aid (DAA) service for a veteran, you prescribe:

The medications
Six months of the DAA service
A Veteran's Six Monthly Review (VSMR) of the service in six months time

To prescribe the DAA service and VSMR:

Call the Veterans' Affairs Pharmaceutical Advisory Centre (VAPAC) on 1800 552 580 to obtain authority prescriptions for the six-month service and VSMR.
Follow the prescribing procedure in Creating New Prescriptions with the following changes.

Procedure

In the Select Drug window, type DVA in the Enter drug name (Trade or Generic) field.

Tip:
Alternatively, type DAA and set Show Results that contain above text.
Select either:
- DAA SIX MONTH DVA DAA 99647N
- DAA VSMR 99648P (VETERANS 6 MNTH REVIEW)
In the Enter Dose window, enter dose of 1, frequency of Weekly and set the duration to Long term.
In the RPBS window, Approval Number field, ensure that the repeats are correct and type the approval number for the DAA or VSMR or set Previous Authority?.
Click Authority.
In the Reason for Medication window, enter the coding used by your practice and click OK.

Results

The DVA DAA is added to the Rx icon

Current Rx tab.

What to do next

Print the DVA DAA as usual.