Students trial Mentor as teaching aid
Pharmacy students at Liverpool’s John Moores University (JMU) will be the first in the country to use the Mentor decision and knowledge support tool from primary care software supplier EMIS. The Mentor system, already available to 55% of GPs in England, will be trialled as a teaching and reference aid by students and lecturers at JMU’s […]
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PCTs register a third of pharmacists for smartcards
Around one in three community pharmacists have been registered to use a smartcard to use the electronic prescription service (EPS) according to Connecting for Health but pharmacy representatives and businesses are continuing to raise concerns about the speed of rollout. Connecting for Health has published its first figures on the registration of pharmacists for smartcards […]
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First full rollout of e-MAS service claimed
Co-operative Group Pharmacy is claiming that it has become the first in Scotland to implement the electronic Minor Ailments Service (e-MAS) across all of its sites, part of a contract that allows pharmacists to dispense medication for easily-spotted conditions. All 39 pharmacies across the country are now linked into NHSnet and training has now […]
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Unichem connects for Electronic Prescription Service
Pharmaceutical wholesaler UniChem and its retail arm Alliance Pharmacy has announced that it has selected virtual networking company Sirocom to provide a managed broadband service to 1,000 of its pharmacies. The broadband connections are being implemented to enable the roll out of Electronic Prescribing Services by connecting allowing its pharmacies to connect to the NHS […]
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St Mary’s goes live with JAC pharmacy management
St Mary’s NHS Trust has become the second trust in London to go live with a new pharmacy management system from JAC Computer Services Ltd, supplied by BT Capital Care Alliance. The new pharmacy system has been supplied to the trust as an additional service by BT CCA, the local service provider for the NHS […]
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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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Enfield PCT selects EMIS for super surgery
A North London primary care trust (PCT) has awarded primary care systems supplier EMIS a contract to supply the PCS system for a new £6.2 million ‘super-surgery’ due to open in Enfield, North London, this year. The system will be used by four GP practices with a combined patient list of 18,300. They will move into the integrated […]
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Pharmacists to get access to EPS but not CRS
Pharmacists are to be registered for access to the NHS spine to enable electronic transmission of prescriptions but will be excluded from access to the NHS Care Records Service for the time being, latest guidance reveals. The guidance sent out to primary care trusts by the Department of Health and NHS Connecting for Health states […]
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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 urged to contact PCTs on smart cards
Pharmacy representatives are telling pharmacists to contact their primary care trusts over smartcard availability as Connecting for Health publishes its first set of guidance for pharmacists on the electronic prescription service (EPS). The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee says it is “strongly advising” pharmacists to contact their PCT to find out what the local arrangements will […]
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