ScriptCheckSA 2021.02 - June 2021

ScriptCheckSA is now available on mobile devices. For more details, see the ScriptCheckSA Mobile Practitioner Portal webhelp.

When selecting medicines for an authority, the Dose field now accepts special characters (for example, “/”), and no longer adds decimal places.

The following practitioners are now able to register:

• Division 1 Nurses with a "Nurse Practitioner" endorsement

• Specialist Podiatrists with a "Scheduled Medicines" endorsement

If you prescribe a Schedule 8 medicine to a patient for whom you do not hold a current authority to prescribe that medicine, the Unauthorised Prescriber alert is triggered.

Medium-risk clinical scenario: A section 18A authority is required to prescribe drugs of dependence to this patient. Contact authorised prescriber, or seek authority before prescribing.

If the patient has no authority for the S8 drug about to be prescribed, the following alert is displayed:

Medium-risk clinical scenario: A section 18A authority is required to prescribe drugs of dependence to this patient. Seek authority before prescribing.

The alert is not triggered if a prescriber holds an authority and DDU have recorded you as a locum for that prescriber, or have identified that you work at the same practice.

Exemptions from alert rule: The patient is 70 years old (or above) and/or is flagged as NPCP (Palliative Care).

A new Send a message function has been added to My Correspondence. It provides health practitioners with a secure method to send an electronic correspondence to DDU about ScriptCheckSA matters.

For details, refer to Correspondence

To improve the readability of the grid displayed in entities where Authorities, Investigations, Enquiries sections are displayed, the grid headers will now be wrapped or replaced with an icon.

On the My Authorities page, the grid now only displays the newest version of each authority.

In all other entities where an Authorities section is included, only the newest version of each authority is now shown in the grid.