Cegedim gets authorisation to deploy for EPS
Cegedim Rx has received authorisation from NHS Connecting for Health to deploy its pharmacy management system Nexphase for use with the electronic prescription service (EPS). The company says that Nexphase is used in approximately 1200 pharmacies. The company expects one of its two other systems, Pharmacy Manager, which is used by approximately 2100 pharmacies in […]
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NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project
Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record patient hospital discharge information, which will then become available to GPs. The project, which will use Capula’s Oasis patient administration software, forms part of NHS Fife’s electronic health record programme known as HOISS (Healthcare Organisations […]
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Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside
Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new solution enables users to raise requests for prescriptions to the hospital pharmacy through authorised web-access points. Ascribe says the main benefits are considerable time-savings and further reductions in errors, also that solution also marks a major […]
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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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EPS underspend due to slower rollout
Funding to pay pharmacists for using the electronic prescriptions service was underspent by more than 50% in the last financial year, pharmacy representatives have revealed. Only £22m out of the £58m allocated for EPS allowances by the Department of Health was spent in 2005-6 but the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) is confident the money […]
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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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InPS and TPP get go-ahead on electronic prescriptions
Two of the major GP system suppliers have been given the go-ahead to roll-out their electronic prescription service (EPS) software to practices. In Practice Systems and TPP have been granted authority for widespread deployment of their software after the software was tested at initial implementation sites. So far only one commercial pharmacy system supplier, AAH, […]
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Boots selects Spinal Tap for prescriptions
Boots has announced that it is to use Quicksilva’s Spinal Tap integration software, on top of the company’s existing Smartscript solution, to allow its branches with dispensing pharmacies to receive electronic transfers of prescriptions (ETP) under the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Quicksilva will be providing both its software and consultancy expertise so that […]
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EPS passes million scrips milestone
More than a million prescriptions have been transmitted via the Electronic Prescription Service, Connecting for Health has announced. The agency said the achievement of the electronic transmission of a million prescription messages is a significant milestone in the deployment of the service. Tim Donohoe, Connecting for Health (CfH) group programme director, added: “Whilst there is […]
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Pharmacists told no deadline for EPS
Pharmacy representatives have told pharmacists that there is no deadline to implement the electronic prescription service (EPS) in fresh advice issued this week. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), the negotiating body for pharmacists, and the National Pharmacy Association which represents more than 6,000 pharmacy owners, have received increasing numbers of calls from pharmacists concerned […]
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