Mental health trust adopts e-prescribing
Inpatient mental health wards at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust have gone live with an Emis Health e-prescribing system, supported by the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’.
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Trust trials Civica e-prescribing system
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is working with Civica on a beta-test of a new system for the electronic prescribing of medicines.
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Open source e-prescribing in pipeline
An electronic prescribing system open sourced for the NHS may be introduced at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
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Cancer e-prescribing at BMI
A cancer electronic prescribing system is being rolled out to 30 private hospitals.
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5,000 GP practices offer e-prescriptions
More than 5,000 GP practices in England offer electronic prescriptions and15 million patients have signed up for the service.
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Mental health trust to roll-out Medchart
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust will be the first mental health trust to implement CSC’s Medchart when it starts rolling out the electronic prescribing system early next year.
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Swindon EPMA project takes tablets
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out inpatient e-prescribing in eight months, with just under £1 million of tech fund support.
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Surrey and Sussex signs with Cerner
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has signed a ten-year contract to retain Cerner Millennium, using the London Procurement Partnership framework.
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Going to the end of the line
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been on a ten year e-prescribing journey; and it recently invited CIOs and CCIOs to see where it has got to. Thomas Meek reports.
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Scottish EPMA framework worth up to £20m
A framework worth up to £20 million is being set up for Scottish health boards to buy electronic prescribing and medicine administration systems.
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