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Quick
Start Guide for electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for Practices
The
following guide is a quick start set of instructions
on how to access the service and a high level
overview of what you will find when you get there.
A full Help facility is available within the service.
The
login screen requires you to enter the User ID
and Password which have been supplied to you:
The electronic Prescribing & Financial Information
for Practices (ePFIP) Home Page will then
be presented to you. This has a series of Folders
in which your reports are stored.
If you are the 'master user' for your practice,
i.e. you are the person that completed and signed
the ePFIP Registration Form, you will have access
to the ePFIP User Administration facility that
allows you to create, amend and delete other users
for your practice. If you are not set up as your
practices' master user you will not be able to
see the ePFIP User Administration facility.
NB:
The first time you access the system you will
need to change your password from the one supplied
to you by the PPD Helpdesk using the <Change
Details> screen.
Users
that have been created by the practice master
user via the ePFIP User Administration facility
will have to accept the system's Terms and Conditions
and change their password the first time they
access the system. They will not be able to access
the practice reports until they have done this
via the ePFIP User Registration facility.
From the Menu (left hand side) click on:
- Change
Details
You should complete the required password details
on this screen and save your changes. The system
will then return you automatically to the ePFIP
Home Page.
There
are other options from the Menu, click
on:
-
Documents to display the list of the Folders
that are relevant to you.
- Links
to display a pre-defined list of useful links,
allowing you to navigate directly to other websites.
- Feedback
Form to provide the PPD with feedback on
the service.
- Help
to display detailed Help on Reports, Navigation
and Search facilities etc.
- Log
Out to end your session and return to the
PPD website.
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Folders
There
is a folder for each of the reports to which you
have access. The reports are updated either monthly
or quarterly, can be viewed on-line, saved as PDF
files or printed locally.
When
you click on either the PAR, PMD, or Prescribing
Review report, the screen will display a list
of the periods the reports are available for,
for example, PMD 2004-02, together with the date
on which they were created.
With
the PDPI report there are many possible combinations
of report, and so instead of having pre-prepared
reports, you create your own using a screen to
tailor the report to your needs. Further information
is available here.
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Practice
Detailed Prescribing Information (PDPI)
Practice
Detailed Prescribing Information provides a full
inventory of the prescription items issued for
the period of the report. It provides a breakdown
for your practice by GP, Practice Nurse, and other
practice prescribers. It includes all Chapters
and Sections down to the level of quantity prescribed.
Unlike the other reports in the ePFIP service
a PDPI report is not stored, but produced on-demand
according to a set of options chosen by a user.
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Prescribing Analysis Report (PAR)
The
Prescribing Analysis Report is based on the old
paper PACT Standard Report and contains an analysis
of the prescribing which has taken place for the
practice during the reporting period. It is produced
automatically at both a monthly and quarterly
level.
The
report shows the total level of prescribing, a
breakdown of prescribing in the 6 highest cost
BNF Therapeutic Groups, the top 20 leading cost
drugs in the practice and the top 40 BNF Sections
by cost in the practice.
The
practice prescribing is also compared with last
year's level and with the PCT and National levels.
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Prescribing Monitoring Document (PMD)
The
Prescribing Monitoring Document provides financial
information about prescribing costs against budgets.
It shows the cost of prescribing, to enable prescribers
to manage the drugs element of their unified budgets.
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Prescribing Review
Each
quarter the PPD produces an article discussing
national guidance, recent clinical trials and
prescribing trends for a specific area of prescribing.
These articles are available on the PPD website
at:
http://www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/download_pdf.htm#prescreview
The
Prescribing Review is a one page report which
shows the prescribing performance of the practice
for the specific drug groupings that are the subject
of each quarter's article. The practice prescribing
costs and items are also shown in comparison with
the local PCT equivalent values.
The
Prescribing Review and its associated article
is the replacement of the Centre Pages report
that was contained within the PACT Standard report.
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ePFIP User Administration
The
ePFIP User Administration facility is only available
to practices' 'master users' - i.e. those users
who completed and signed the ePFIP Registration
Form. This facility allows the master users to
view, amend, create and delete other users for
their practice.
Detailed information about all of these reports can be found in the ePFIP Help facility (accessed from the Navigation Bar).
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Toolbar
Navigation
within the actual reports is achieved by using the
Toolbar at the top of the screen. enlarge
- TOC
provides a table of contents for the report.
This is useful for PCT users of the reports
as it will show a list of each practice within
their PCT. The report can be navigated by clicking
on a practice to go to the report pages for
that practice.
- You
can navigate through the pages of the reports
by clicking on PREV / NEXT / LAST etc.
-
The total number of pages for a given report
is displayed.
- Zoom
provides the facility to adjust the scale of
the visible report to suit the settings on your
PC.
- Download
provides the facility to save or view either
a selected number of pages, or a complete report
in PDF format. It also provides the facility
to export these pages or complete report into
Excel.
- Print
displays the report as a PDF file and
shows the Print dialog.
- HELP
provides access to detailed information on Reports,
Navigation, Search facilities etc.
- To
return to menu of reports click on the 'X'
at the right of the Navigation Bar.
Additional Navigation is available from
the area above Folders
The
following may be displayed in this area:
- Documents
> Prescribing Reports/electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for Practices > 'report
name'. This displays when you are looking
at a list of months available within a report's
folder. Clicking on <Documents> or <electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for Practices> will display the list
of available reports beneath Folders.
- Documents
> Prescribing review/electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for Practices. Clicking on
<Documents> will display 'electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for Practices' beneath Folders.
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