Prescribing

Archive
29 January 2016

Healthcare IT primary care news in brief

This week's industry round-up focuses on news from the primary care sector, including contracts for prescribing software and the use
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14 January 2016

Prescribing tool opens up GP data

A new online tool allows people to quickly analyse and respond to the huge GP prescribing datasets released monthly by
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3 December 2015

10m patients book to see GP online

NHS patients in England are on track to book 10 million appointments and order more than 15 million prescriptions online
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24 September 2015

5,000 GP practices offer e-prescriptions

More than 5,000 GP practices in England offer electronic prescriptions and15 million patients have signed up for the service.
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1 September 2014

Half of Scottish GPs offer online meds

Just over half of GP practices in Scotland let patients order repeat prescriptions online or by email, a report by
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6 May 2014

Mobile app puts ‘doctor in your pocket’

A mobile app lets users see their GP through video consultations and order prescriptions on their smartphone or tablet.
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29 October 2013

2015 records access promise scaled back

EXCLUSIVE: The governmentā€™s pledge for patients to have online access to their GP record by March 2015 will only require
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13 August 2013

Prescribing+ pulled from market

BMJ Informatica has pulled its medicines optimisation tool Prescribing+ from the market and suspended the Safety+ product on Emis systems.
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11 June 2013

Bury tops EPS usage

NHS Bury Clinical Commissioning Group has deployed the Electronic Prescription Service Release 2 to all of its practices and has
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19 February 2013

Prescribing tool launched

Primary care researchers have launched a tool to help reduce the risk of commonly made drug prescribing errors.
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