MHRA implements adverse drug reaction software
The government’s medicines safety agency has implemented new software to improve management of adverse drug reaction (ADR) data reported by GPs and patients and to flag up and prioritise potential medicine safety issues. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) began last week to use new software from Lincoln Technologies to analyse data from […]
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EPS pilot to restart after early glitch
One of England’s first electronic prescription service (EPS) pilots has been shut down for more than a month because of problems with the GP clinical system supplier’s software. Brigstock Pharmacy in Croydon, South London, began to receive prescriptions from its neighbouring GP practice in December but the pilot had to be halted because the practice’s […]
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Warning on patient data from medicines reviews
Pharmacists are being warned not to e-mail medicines use reviews to GPs until concerns over confidentiality have been addressed. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee says there has been an “exponential increase” in the number of medicines use reviews (MURs) currently being carried out by pharmacists and that many GPs have asked to receive the MUR […]
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Pharmacists call for GP booking facility
Pharmacy representatives are calling for a ‘Choose and Book’ style system to be set up between pharmacies and GP practices so that pharmacists can book GP appointments for patients. The idea has been proposed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) as part of its submission to the Department of Health’s consultation […]
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Birmingham PCTs sign up for Pfizer self-care project
Two PCTs in Birmingham are to be the first in the UK to implement a community self-care project in which patients with diabetes and other long-term conditions will receive regular telephone support at home by trained community nurses. The OwnHealth project, which will be run by UK Pfizer Health Solutions in conjunction with NHS Direct, will […]
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Handwriting rules for controlled drug scripts written off
GPs will no longer have to handwrite prescriptions for controlled drugs as a result of amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations which come into force next week. From 14 November, prescriptions for controlled drugs can be produced using typing and printing, ending a restriction which has been viewed as anachronistic since the widespread adoption […]
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AAH launches ‘onestopshop’ ETP solution
AAH Pharmaceuticals has announced the launch of its ‘onestopshop’ Electronic Prescription Service solution, an all-inclusive solution based on its LinkEvolution system and building on experience gained from initial ETP implementations. According to AAH the new solution is both user friendly and meets the required criteria for NHS Connecting for Health’s (CfH) ETP release one. So […]
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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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BNF for Children launches with online version
A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version www.bnfc.nhs.uk free of charge to anyone in England. Its publishers hope NHS staff in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland will also soon have access. The health departments in all four countries have arranged for doctors […]
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New software for logging drug enquiries ready
New software that helps pharmacists in local medicine information centres to record and audit clinician enquiries about medication has been released this week, offering potential future expandability to the NHS Care Records Service and an update to some of the older, DOS-based systems. The MiDatabank system allows clinician enquiries about medication to be logged for future audit, […]
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