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Electronic Prescription Service
15 February 2023

Electronic Prescription Service fulfils one billion items a year

The Electronic Prescription Service is now responsible for fulfiling 95% of all prescription requests, with 2021/22 seeing it dispense 996
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19 October 2015

Barcoded medicines to prevent fake drugs

All prescription medicines will need to carry a barcode on their packaging to reduce the risk of counterfeit and unsafe
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5 June 2015

Dashboard tracks drug data across CCGs

NHS England has updated its dashboard to encourage clinical commissioning groups to improve the use of medicines.
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14 March 2011

Episys supports Darent’s ward dispensing

Darent Valley Hospital has reduced the average time taken to dispense patient discharge medicines from four hours to 15 minutes
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27 October 2009

CQC criticises discharge summaries

The Care Quality Commission has warned that the NHS may be failing to prevent harm to patients by failing to
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27 October 2009

Swedish pilot fights fake medicines

Siemens IT Solutions and Services and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) have launched a medicine coding
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7 October 2009

EU criticised over online medicines

The EU executive’s decision not to legislate against online pharmacies is a major omission in its plans to fight counterfeit
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3 September 2009

Lloydspharmacy installs virtual GPs

High street pharmacy giant Lloydspharmacy is rolling out 300 ‘virtual GPs’ to enable customers to consult a doctor remotely and
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1 September 2009

3,000 members for Birmingham OwnHealth

Birmingham OwnHealth has just seen its active membership top 3,000 for the first time. The telephone help service is a
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18 August 2009

NHS Number exemptions expected

Community pharmacists and other groups of NHS workers will be made exempt from the national requirement to use the NHS
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