Scotland provides long-term funding for IT support staff
Scotland has announced long-term funding for IM&T facilitators to work with GPs, pharmacists and dentists. The Scottish government has agreed to provide recurring funding for the IM&T facilitators who will now be paid for via money provided direct to NHS boards. Previously the funding for IM&T facilitators for dentists and pharmacists were handled centrally. In […]
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Cegedim Rx plans telehealth move
Pharmacy systems specialists, Cegedim Rx, has partnered with Telehealth Solutions to integrate self-monitoring devices with their pharmacy systems. Telehealth Solutions provides a self-monitoring system for patients, once interfaced with Cegedim Rx pharmacy systems, the system assists in the monitoring of patient’s medications. Cegedim Rx will be working on a project that will bring integrated testing […]
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One in ten EPS pharmacies scanning all barcodes
Only 11% of pharmacies enabled for the Electronic Prescription Service are scanning every barcode prescription with problems including slow download speeds, the barcodes themselves being too faint to scan and slow log-in times, according to a survey. A total of 365 pharmacies took part in a survey, carried out jointly by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating […]
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Pharmacists may get access to patient care records
The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved. The news comes despite BMA concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of extending access to an additional professional group working in the commercial sector. The newly-published white paper on community pharmacy, Pharmacy in England: […]
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Phase two EPS accreditation due within months
The first pharmacy and GP system suppliers expect to receive technical accreditation for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in April and May this year, according to Connecting for Health (CfH). The IT agency has published the status of GP and pharmacy systems currently progressing through the compliance process for release two of […]
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Six month delay to stage two of electronic prescriptions
Release two of the Electronic Prescription Service will not go live until spring or summer this year, at least six months later than initially planned. Connecting for Health told EHI Primary Care that the initial timetable had been based on indicative timescales from system suppliers but had been delayed because suppliers were not yet ready […]
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New Internet Pharmacy Logo unveiled
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has launched a new Internet Pharmacy Logo, designed to be a visual tool to help the public identify if a website is being operated by a bona fide pharmacy in Britain. The move follows research by the society which showed that over 2m people across Britain now […]
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ETP could cut dispensing errors in half
Dispensing errors could be cut by nearly 50% if pharmacists used an authentification system linked to the electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), according to the biggest piece of research to date on dispensing errors in UK pharmacies. The study, published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, looked at the number of dispensing errors at […]
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Scotland issues revised ETP schedule
Scotland has issued a revised timetable for the rollout of its electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) project which it now aims to complete by the end of September next year, six months later than planned. The latest estimates for the rollout of the Scottish ePharmacy Programme predict that all GPs should have access to ETP […]
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Pharmacists may sanction SCR access
Soon patients may be able to sign up for online access to their Summary Care Record from community pharmacy premises. The Pan-Pharmacy NHS IT group, a body set up to ensure engagement between pharmacists and relevant Connecting for Health programmes, heard at its first meeting this month that patients might be able to register for […]
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