Less than 1.5% of electronic prescriptions seamless
E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic prescriptions issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just under 30,000 have been seamlessly sent and received all the way through to dispensing. Out of the 1.6m scripts created electronically by GPs, just 29,386 have then been sent over the NHS spine, received and called down by […]
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Avon and Wiltshire roll out controlled drug service
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has begun installing web-based software to help manage and track the dispensing of controlled drugs. Ascribe’s Substance Misuse Service is being rolled out in two of the mental health units in the trust; West Wiltshire Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service and North Somerset SDAS, with the next […]
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FDBE chosen to implement dm+d guide
First Databank Europe (FDBE), the specialist provider of electronic drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support systems, has been selected by NHS Connecting for Health to author the next Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) implementation guidance. The new guide will provide support and a reference point for all systems suppliers implementing the dm+d and […]
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St Mary’s goes live with JAC pharmacy management
St Mary’s NHS Trust has become the second trust in London to go live with a new pharmacy management system from JAC Computer Services Ltd, supplied by BT Capital Care Alliance. The new pharmacy system has been supplied to the trust as an additional service by BT CCA, the local service provider for the NHS […]
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Wristband risk to patient safety highlighted
A drive to raise awareness of the importance of patients wearing hospital wristbands should make barcode and RFID technology more effective and help prevent errors. The initiative launched this week by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) was discussed at a healthcare group meeting of Intellect, the trade association for the UK’s high tech industries. Chris Ranger, […]
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South London and Maudsley goes live with JAC
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has gone live across the trust with a new pharmacy management system from JAC Computer Services, delivered as part of the NHS National Programme for Information Technology. The JAC system was supplied to the trust by BT, the London local service provider under the NHS IT modernisation programme. JAC […]
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IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog
Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not only in avoiding medication errors but in supporting audit and providing information to professionals. An NAO report published today identifies medication errors, record documentation errors and communication failures as leading causes of incidents in which […]
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ETP should be fully operational by end of 2007
Electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) will be deployed over two releases and should be fully operational by the end of 2007, according to Connecting for Health’s newly published implementation strategy. The first release will involve paper and electronic systems working side by side and will be extended from the initial implementation sites to cover practices […]
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Accreditation for e-prescription service software
Pharmacy software specialist, Systems Solutions, has received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health to transmit prescriptions electronically through N3, the NHS network. Systems Solutions’ announced that its flagship patient medication record (PMR) system, QicSCRIPT, which is currently live in over 1,200 Boots stores, was awarded the “Technical Authority to Deploy” certificate this week. It successfully […]
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Illegal online pharmacies ‘threat to public health’
A paper published by think-tank the Centre for Reform has warned of the dangers of unregulated online pharmacies and is urging the government to take seriously the problem of prescription drugs being ordered with no medical checks on the patient. The paper, entitled ‘Online Pharmacy: Patient Choice or Patient Peril?’, a collation of speeches made […]
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