Help help!!! Pharmacy system

[lizpharm]

i was wondering if there was an easier way to find out which chemists uses LINK as thier system, i want to start locuming and need to practice how to use all the systems..ive phoned a couple of independent they all use Rx...can someone help?????

[LeftArm]

LINK has been replaced with RxSystems Proscript LINK which is essentially the same as Rxsystems Proscript.

[andrew paxton]

You may find some still, (Try the independent in Ambleside) but as Link have stopped supporting the system, they will get rarer and rarer.

[andrew paxton]

If it's any help. I used to use Link when I had my own pharmacy. It is quite difficult to use well; it was designed about 20 years ago, when computers couldn't do half the things they can now, and it would probably not be worth the effort of learning its oddities now that Sainsbury's have moved over to Pharmacy Manager

[dizzyb23]

May I be nosey and ask why you are trying to learn dispensary systems?? Has your locum agency asked you to do this? I'm ok with Nexphase and Compass if you need any hints and tips....

[faithbee]

May I be nosey and ask why you are trying to learn dispensary systems?? Has your locum agency asked you to do this? I'm ok with Nexphase and Compass if you need any hints and tips....

Could you kindly give me some hints and tips with regards to the Nexphase system? Does anyone know where I can get hold of a Nexphase tutorial/training?
Thanks!!

[andrew paxton]

Both Boots and Asda use Nexphase, but use it differently. Boots' version and YLBP (formerly Alliance, formerly Moss) are also different from each other. Key points. The left-control and the right-control keys are different. The left one works as a standard Windows Control Key, (so you can do the editing functions CTRL+C, CTRL+X and CTRL+V), though if you hold it down for a couple of seconds it converts to a Nexphase Control Key. The Right Control Key is solely a Nexphase Control Key. The control key accesses context-specific functions in Nexphase. Press it to find out what it does. Right-clicking with the mouse often, but not always, does the same. Patients' details can be entered forename first or surname first, though the default is forename first. If you get the order wrong when you are creating a patient, there is a function (I think it's f3) that swaps the names around. If the patient is already there, either order finds him. f9 generally brings back the previous patient. f8 finishes a script and sends the endorsement to the printer, but using f9 at that point endorses the script and keeps the patient. If you are on a patient's detail (address, NHS number etc. ) and you press f9, you create a member of the same family, with surname, address, GP and similar details the same, and blank for the others. ETP is quite good in Nexphase, though generally Boots don't know how to use it (I haven't worked for them for 3 months and things may have changed!) You scan from anywhere in the process and the information goes straight to the EPS module, similarly to Pharmacy Manager. Scan again to process. The Boots training, when it was done 7 years ago, made it far more complicated. In Boots, they only adopted Nexphase about 4 years ago, so they probably still have the manual kicking around somewhere. Just ask.

[weeneldo]

Ever used Positive Solutions? It uses touch screens! The system itself actually seems quite easy to use from my limited experience with the couple of places I've been that use it, but the touch screen takes a bit of getting used to (especially when typing) and I usually just find it easier to use the mouse and keyboard. But if you had it full-time then I imagine it would be pretty good and the touch screen might make you feel like you're in Star Trek or CSI. The places I've used it, it works as the PMR but also the till system at the front counter. The bag labels have a barcode on them so that when you hand out the stuff, you scan the barcode at the till and type in who is collecting it, meaning that you know whether or not medication has been picked up and who picked it up.

[andrew paxton]

That's Analyst, isn't it? Yes, it's very good and easy to operate, but its EPS-2 will be quite a long time coming, and from what I've heard, they don't like you to move away from them.

[weeneldo]

EPS-2? Guess it must be an NHS England thing? But yeah, analyst is the system. It has the thing for scanning barcodes on the pack when dispensing which is quite cool.