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Prescription History is the pharmacy unit’s record rather than its queue: every prescription the hospital has written and dispensed, across all dates. Use it when someone asks what a patient was given, and when.

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What you’re looking at

The page opens with a greeting and the line View complete history of all pharmacy prescriptions and dispensing records — the sentence that tells you this is the archive, not today’s work. Two controls sit above the table: Search for patient, which filters by the person rather than by the medicine, and New Prescription, which takes you back to the live queue to start a fresh script. A View Columns dropdown with a Toggle columns list is on the right. The table is six columns: Each row’s ⋯ menu offers a single action, View Details. Empty state. A pharmacy unit that has never dispensed anything shows No pharmacy history available. If something has gone wrong loading the page you get an error message in its place instead — that is a different thing, and refreshing usually clears it.

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Find a past prescription

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Search by the patient

Enter a name or hospital number in Search for patient. The box searches people, not drugs, so searching for a medicine name returns nothing.
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Read the row

Prescriptions tells you how many medications were on that script and Date when it was last touched, which is enough to pick the right one out of several visits.
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Open it

Select ⋯ → View Details, or select the row. The screen changes to Prescription Details with a Back to History button in the corner.
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Read the detail

You get the full script as it was written and filled — each medication with its quantity, dosage, frequency and duration, who prescribed it and who dispensed it.
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Go back to the list

Select Back to History. Your search text is not carried back, so re-enter it if you are working through several records.

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Reading the badges

The badge beside the hospital number tells you how the patient reached the pharmacy, which is often the fastest way to narrow a list:
  • Ward — an admitted patient, dispensed against a ward prescription.
  • New Patient — their first attendance.
  • Follow Up — a returning outpatient.
A row still showing Pending in history is a script that was written but never dispensed. That is a legitimate record — the patient may have gone elsewhere, or the item may have been out of stock — but if it is recent, check the live queue in Prescription list before assuming it was abandoned.

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Who can do this

Role decides whether the page opens. The Pharmacy group needs the In-house pharmacy care area, and on Enterprise an owner can hide it from a role under Settings → Role Navigation. Permission decides what you may do once inside. History is a read surface, so there is very little to gate: Two behaviours worth knowing. Enforcement is opt-in per person — a colleague who has never been saved in the permissions sheet is unrestricted, and the sheet warns “Saving starts enforcing” before you change that. And a denied action is recorded while an allowed one is not, so hiding this page from a role is a convenience, not a security boundary. Reading a patient’s dispensing record is a clinical read, and it is written to your hospital’s audit log with your name against it.

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Check it worked

  • The script you wanted is on screen under Prescription Details, for the right patient and the right date.
  • Dispensed By names the pharmacist who filled it.
  • Back to History returns you to the list without losing your place in the record.

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Common issues

Search for patient matches the person, not the medication. Find the patient, then read their scripts.
History is built from dispensing records. A script still working its way through today’s queue lives in Prescription list until it is filled.
Nothing has been dispensed yet in this hospital. It is an empty archive, not a fault.
That is a load failure rather than an empty list. Refresh the page; if it repeats, note the time so support can match it against your audit log.
History is deliberately read-only. Dispensing happens on the live queue and, for stock, in the Fill Rx tab of Inventory.

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FAQ

All of it. History is the complete record for the hospital, not a rolling window, which is why it is the right place to answer a query about last year.
It shows when the record was last updated, so a script corrected after dispensing shows the correction date. The original detail is still in the record.
Not from this page. Pharmacy figures over a period are reported on the pharmacy station and in Analytics.
Yes, badged Ward. Inpatient and outpatient dispensing share one record.
No. Over-the-counter sales are recorded in Pharmacy sales; this page is prescriptions only.