The TestSafe service also includes information on Community Pharmacy dispensing.

Benefits

TestSafe Pharmacy provides you with access to selected laboratory results for patients in your care. This will be particularly helpful when you:

• Need to establish what medicines a patient is taking
• Need more information before dispensing a prescription or recommending a 'pharmacy only' medicine
• Are performing a Medicines Use Review
• Need lab test results, like INRs or renal function, when dispensing a prescription.

TestSafe can also be used by DHB Pharmacists to view community dispensing records, reducing the need for you to spend time on the phone responding to hospital queries. TestSafe is linked into the “eMedication Reconciliation” project that the DHBs wrote to you about in March 2010 and in the future will be the way you can access information on hospital prescribing.

How it works

An update is installed on your Toniq or LOTS system to send dispensing data to TestSafe. There is no cost involved and no need for you to do anything extra day to day.

For detailed information, work your way through the menu item at the top of this page.

Common Concerns

With anything new there are always concerns about impacts and risks for you as healthcare professionals. Common concerns are covered in the ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ on this website. Please do not hesitate to contact the CareConnect TestSafe service if you have any further queries or concerns, see 'Contacts' above.

Access to Lab Results

Pharmacists have have a responsibility to check lab results in certain circumstances when dispensing, for more information on this click here. Access to TestSafe for Pharmacists from community pharmacies is available for the following subset of laboratory results:

• FBC
• HbA1c
• INR
• Fe studies (includes Fe, IBC, ferritin)
• Thyroid function tests
• Anticonvulsant levels
• General Chemistry (includes electrolytes, creatinine, urea, AST, ALT, ALP, GGT, CK, Urate, Troponin, lipids)
• MSU

Click on the following link and complete the agreement to get your access organised. Send the complete agreement to:

TestSafe Service Coordinator (healthAlliance)
Counties Manukau DHB
Private Bag 93311
Otahuhu
Auckland