Prescriptions

The Prescriptions page is your clinic's prescription ledger: every medication prescribed, to whom, by whom, and its current status.

The prescription ledger

Writing a prescription

1. Open Prescriptions and click New prescription.
2. Pick the patient — search by name or file number and use the arrow keys + Enter to choose without leaving the keyboard.
3. Enter the medication: as you type, matching items from your inventory are suggested (with stock levels). Pick one, or just type a name freely when there's no match.
4. Set the dose and frequency (e.g. "500 mg", "3× daily"), and optionally a duration and free-text notes.
5. (Optional) Click Add start/end dates to record an explicit course window. When an end date is set it drives the expiry/"expiring" badge on the pharmacy queue instead of the duration text.
6. The prescriber defaults to you. Save.

Tracking

Each prescription has a status (e.g. active, completed, expired) you can update as treatment progresses. The search box at the top of the page filters the ledger by patient name, file number, medication, prescriber, or status — so pulling up everything a patient is currently taking is quick.

Pharmacy dashboard

Members with the Pharmacy role land on the Pharmacy page — a dispensing view over the same ledger:

• At a glance: active prescriptions, courses expiring soon (≤2 days left, from the end date when set, else the start/prescribed date plus duration), and how many patients are currently on medication.
• Dispensing queue: active prescriptions, oldest first, with the same search box. Courses about to run out carry an Expiring badge.
• Dispense: one click on a queue row hands over the course — it's marked completed and logged to the Recently dispensed feed; clicking the row itself opens the full prescription detail.

Clinicians can also open the Pharmacy page for an oversight view of the queue.

Prescription changes are recorded in the activity log, giving you a full history of who prescribed what and when.