Prescriptions

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15 August 2024

Share of £32m AI funding to speed up prescription deliveries

A project to speed up NHS prescription deliveries using AI algorithms is to receive a share of £32 million in
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21 June 2023

Pharmacy2U sees demand grow for NHS new medicine service

Pharmacy2U has become the number one provider of the NHS new medicine service, after a 68% increase in users of
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14 June 2023

Digitisation of NHS prescriptions using E-Sign secure technology for National Clinical Homecare Association (NCHA)

The trade body for the clinical homecare industry, NCHA, put out a tender for a single, standardised digital solution to
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Electronic Prescription Service
15 February 2023

Electronic Prescription Service fulfils one billion items a year

The Electronic Prescription Service is now responsible for fulfiling 95% of all prescription requests, with 2021/22 seeing it dispense 996
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A screenshot of the prescription app Echo
16 July 2019

Prescription ordering app Echo snapped up by McKesson UK

NHS prescription reminder and tracking app Echo has been acquired by the owner of LloydsPharmacy.
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Co-Op Health
3 June 2019

Co-op app will allows customers to manage repeat prescriptions

Mobile technology company Apadmi has been tasked with helping to help support the development of the Co-op's new health app.
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Prescription
16 October 2018

Digital system to be piloted to help crack down on prescription fraud

Though the NHS Business Authority runs random checks, it is estimated that prescription fraud costs the NHS in England an
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