Pharmacists reject prescription printing plan
Community pharmacists claim they may still have to print out more than a quarter of prescription tokens when release two of the electronic prescription service (EPS) is introduced later this year. Representatives at the annual conference of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) passed a motion “rejecting in the strongest terms” the plans to print […]
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Initial sites wanted for the next phase of EPS
NHS Connecting for Health is recruiting primary care trusts to be initial implementation sites for release two of the electronic prescription service. Release two will deliver digital signatures for prescriptions, enable patients to nominate pharmacies, improve electronic repeat dispensing processes and enable GPs to cancel a prescription at any time up until the medication is […]
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Systems Solution get EPS clinical authority certificate
Irish pharmacy specialists Systems Solutions have passed Connecting for Health’s Release 1 compliance for its electronic prescriptions service (EPS) product QicScript. QicScript is an EPS system which provides the management control for a pharmacy business. It has advanced features designed to manage today’s most important pharmacy issues, and enables pharmacists to reduce their costs and […]
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Wider engagement with pharmacists could yield benefits
Wider engagement with community pharmacists which could deliver a range of new services with the appropriate IT support and access to electronic records is being ignored by the NHS IT programme in England, according to a pharmacy body. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has told an inquiry into the future of pharmacy […]
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SMS alerts for prescriptions launched
Irish pharmaceutical software company, Systems Solutions Limited, has incorporated SMS text messages, e-mails and direct mail functionality into its QicScript dispensary system. System Solutions says the software is a first that will allow pharmacists to communicate with their patients easily using their preferred method of communication, choosing between text messages, email or letters. The system […]
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Polypharmacy phone counselling can save lives
Periodic telephone counselling of patients receiving multiple drugs for chronic diseases can improve compliance with the medication regime – and save lives, according research published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, say that further work needs to be carried out and they are currently doing another study […]
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Talking pill bottles read out their own labels
Pharmacies in Northern California have started to stock talking prescription bottles which aim to help elderly or partially sighted patients by reading out label information at the touch of a button. The bottles, which go by the name ‘Rex’, contain a voice chip, battery and a speaker. When dispensing, the pharmacist inserts the bottle into the recording dock, which connects […]
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QicSCRIPT gets drug barcode scanning
System Solutions have announced that they have released a new version of their QicSCRIPT patient medication record software that allows users to scan the product barcodes of drugs they are dispensing to be automatically checked against the prescription. The system, which will be compatible with NPfIT’s Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), bypasses the need for details […]
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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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QicSCRIPT upgraded for medicine use reviews
Pharmacy software solution QicSCRIPT has been upgraded with appointment scheduling and patient identification systems so that pharmacists can deal with Medicines Use Reviews (MURs) under their new contract. QicSCRIPT’s new system allows pharmacists to scan their records and identify the most appropriate candidates for review. The patients are then contacted to have their medication checked […]
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