Correspondence

This section displays all correspondence generated from Canberra Script and addressed to the practitioner.

Practitioners can view correspondence uploaded to their profile or addressed to them in relation to Approvals, plus general correspondence.

The red indicator next to the Correspondence icon shows how many items of unread correspondence there are for the practitioner.

If you want to reset the counter, you can choose to Mark all as Read. See Mark all correspondence as read for more details.

For each line entry in Correspondence, a flag Read or Unread is displayed. You can sort or filter on the Read column to focus on the correspondence items you have not yet read.

Search and view correspondence

  1. From the navigation menu, select Correspondence.

    Correspondence for this practitioner is displayed in the grid in reverse chronological order.

  2. Select calendar to display all the date filtering options.

    By default, the filter is set to display correspondence added in the last 90 days.

  3. Use the column header to sort, search and filter the list until you find the relevant entries.

    To display only unread items, click the filter icon at the top of the Read column and select Unread.

  4. Select a row to open the attached document (and download it).

  5. Column

    Details

    Date of document

    For letters, displays the date the letter was created.

    Date added

    For all correspondence, displays the date the item was added.

    Sender
    • Me - Documents you uploaded

    • ACT Health Pharmaceutical Services - correspondence generated by the system and addressed to you

    Type

    Displays the type of correspondence.

    Filename

    The filename of the correspondence item. Click to view or download.

    File extension

    The file type of the correspondence item.

    Patient

    If the correspondence item is linked to an approval, the patient name is shown.

    Click to view the patient.

    Linked to

    The identifier of the entity that the correspondence is attached to.

    For example, an approval.

    Click to view.

    Read Read or unread.

Download a correspondence document

  • Select any item of correspondence in the list to view (or download) the document.

    Depending on your browser settings, the document may open in a new tab.

Send a Message to ACT Health Pharmaceutical Services

The Send a message function provides health practitioners with a secure method to send an electronic correspondence to ACT Health about Canberra Script matters.

  1. Select Send a message to open a new Message form.

    • Date raised - Today's date.

    • Status - Open (Default)

    • Topic - (Mandatory) Select a Topic from the list, or select Other and enter your own topic in the text field.

  2. Provide the required details for patients, descriptions and correspondence:

  3. Send

    If all required inputs have been provided and are valid, the message is sent to ACT Health.

    Your message has been sent successfully.

    Your message is displayed in My Correspondence (see above).

Mark all correspondence as read

There may be circumstances in which you want to mark all correspondence as read.

  1. Click Mark all as Read.

  2. In the popup, click Yes.

All correspondence items will display as Read and there will no longer be a red counter on the Correspondence icon at the top of the screen.