Northern Ireland's pharmacists to meet with minister after vote to reduce services ... repared to 'no longer collect prescriptions from GP surgeries on patients' behalf and deliver them for free'. Paul Rees, NPA chief executive, told The Pharmacist earlier this week that the lack of electronic prescriptions in Northern Ireland was a 'bone of contention' for pharmacies, which must collect the prescriptions manually from GP surgeries. Northern Ireland pharmacy owners raise patient safety concerns The 21 ... Date: 15-11-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Original pack dispensing allowed from January ... ensing for schedule 1-4 controlled drugs or for unlicensed specials (Part VIIIB, Part VIIID and non-Tariff specials). It also said that reimbursement for OPD +/- 10% dispensing would only apply to electronic prescriptions, and not to supplies in accordance with Serious Shortages Protocols or Patient Group Directions. The changes have been finalised following amendments made last week (3 September 2024) to The Natio ... Date: 09-09-2024 Categories: • Community • News

NHSE issues advice to pharmacies ahead of early release of prisoners ... macy First via NHS 111. NHSE’s electronic prescription service (EPS) is starting to be rolled out into the prison healthcare system, meaning that over the next year pharmacy teams may start to see electronic prescriptions issued by healthcare services in prisons. An HM prison-issued FP10 or FP10MDA prescription which is issued to a person who has been released from prison is exempt from NHS prescription charges, NH ... Date: 03-09-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Some pharmacies to start issuing NHS electronic prescriptions Some pharmacies will soon be able to issue NHS electronic prescriptions as the next stage of the community pharmacy prescribing pathfinder project is rolled out. In a letter sent to regional pharmacy leads today, NHS England said it had procured a national clinical sy ... Date: 29-08-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Pharmacies ‘paying the price’ for IT outage ... munity pharmacist Ade Williams said there had been ‘good coordination’ with other local partners in responding to the IT issues, which took out most GP and some pharmacy systems on Friday, preventing electronic prescriptions in England from being filed and dispensed. And he said he thought the sector’s response to the crisis was ‘an example of why the face to face interactions of brick and mortar pharmacy matters so m ... Date: 22-07-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Prescription chaos amid IT outages ... es have disrupted prescription access and medicines delivery today, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has confirmed. IT issues affecting the 'majority' of GP practices are blocking access to electronic prescriptions and patient records. And NHS England (NHSE) has suggested that paper prescriptions can be used 'to manage the disruption'. Patients have reported being unable to access NHS app functionality in ... Date: 19-07-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News

Wales launches first electronic prescription service ... he start of an exciting digital transformation that will completely change the way prescriptions are managed in primary care, streamlining a process that has not altered significantly in decades. ‘electronic prescriptions will make a huge difference to the NHS and patients and is a major milestone in our journey towards digitising every prescription in every healthcare setting across Wales.’ And she thanked the sta ... Date: 17-11-2023 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News

Concerns 100-hour pharmacy easements could risk out-of-hours access ... red to the pharmacy from A&E or an out-of-hours GP service. Dr Selvaseelan Selvarajah, an out-of-hours GP in London and partner in the pharmacy-led Green Light Group, said that he often issues electronic prescriptions to a local pharmacy after an out-of-hours telephone consultation. But he said that late-night pharmacies reducing their opening hours would have a particular impact on elderly and vulnerable patie ... Date: 02-06-2023 Categories: • News

Nearly one billion electronic prescriptions issued in England last year ... prescriptions were issued via the electronic prescription service (EPS) in England throughout 2021-22, making up 95% of the total number of prescriptions issued. The 2021-22 figure of 995,975,658 electronic prescriptions was nearly double that from 2016-17, when 532 million – just under half (48%) the total number of prescriptions – were issued on paper. Rahul Singal, chief pharmacy and medicines information offic ... Date: 09-02-2023 Categories: • News

Diabetes drugs account for 13% of prescriptions spend in England, data shows ... s in the most deprived areas of the country compared to the least deprived. The data only covered 'identified patients', verified through their NHS number. The authors pointed out that the rise in electronic prescriptions during the pandemic will have led to greater proportions of identified patients in 2021/22 because of the increased accuracy compared to paper. This comes after NHS England announced this month th ... Date: 11-08-2022 Categories: • Diabetes and endocrinology

Electronic prescribing to be rolled out in Wales within five years ... ment undertook an independent review into ePrescribing in Wales. In April, Community Pharmacy Wales (CPW) published its manifesto, in which it called on the next Government to develop a system for electronic prescriptions. It said: ‘The archaic system of still having green pieces of paper moving between GP practices and pharmacies, often via patients, must end. The [Covid] crisis has highlighted the inefficiencies ... Date: 23-09-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacies are an ‘economic driver’ that will help Wales recover from Covid, says first minister ... sp;‘supporter’ of pharmacy services.   Community Pharmacy Wales (CPW), who publicly welcomed the new minister on Twitter, also called on the next Welsh Government to develop a system for electronic prescriptions.  It comes after the body’s manifesto which was published in May, which highlighted several changes it wants to see implemented for community pharmacy in Wales o ... Date: 09-09-2021 Categories: • News

New Welsh health minister is a ‘supporter’ of pharmacy services, says RPS ... ard to working with the Minister on this issue.’ Community Pharmacy Wales (CPW), who publicly welcomed the new minister on Twitter, also called on the next Welsh Government to develop a system for electronic prescriptions. https://twitter.com/CPWales/status/1393086227113562113 In the body’s manifesto — published before the elections — it highlighted several changes it wants to see implemented for community ph ... Date: 14-05-2021 Categories: • News

CPW urges next Welsh Government to roll out electronic prescriptions across country Community Pharmacy Wales (CPW) has called for the next Welsh Government to develop a system for electronic prescriptions, ahead of the Senedd elections next month (6 May). Introducing electronic prescriptions across Wales should be a ‘key priority', CPW said in its own manifesto, to ‘facilitate improvements in the e ... Date: 27-04-2021 Categories: • News

Senedd election 2021: What do the party manifestos mean for pharmacy? ... rticipation in community activity. Prescriptions Welsh Labour: Will keep prescriptions free in Wales. Welsh Conservatives: Also promise to maintain free prescriptions – and plans to roll out electronic prescriptions. Plaid Cymru: No specific pledges. Medicine prices Welsh Labour: No specific pledges. Welsh Conservatives: No specific pledges. Plaid Cymru: No specific pledges. Covid-19 Welsh L ... Date: 26-04-2021 Categories: • News

English pharmacies to receive electronic prescriptions from Covid-19 hotline GPs working for the Covid-19 telephone hotline can now prescribe drugs to patients using the electronic prescription service (EPS), according to an NHS primary care bulletin. The scope of prescribing is only for acute pr ... Date: 07-09-2020 Categories: • News

Record number of medicines dispensed from pharmacies in March ... the electronic prescription service, showing a 12% jump since October last year, when just 70% of prescriptions were prescribed and dispensed through EPS. Pharmacists have reported receiving more electronic prescriptions since lockdown began at the end of March. Company Chemist Association (CCA) chief executive, Malcolm Harrison, spoke of how the recent data reflected how quickly community pharmacies have managed ... Date: 02-06-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • Latest News • News

Only 21 deaths nationwide: Pharmacy in New Zealand during Covid-19 ... ortive of us throughout this period,’ he added. Long term benefits One of the ‘great benefits’ of the pandemic, according to Mr McMichael, has been that it has forced New Zealand to the use of electronic prescriptions. ‘Before this New Zealand hadn’t embraced a lot of electronic prescribing at all. Then suddenly overnight, we had to embrace it, because we couldn't have bits of paper going from medical centres to p ... Date: 21-05-2020 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views

Default electronic prescriptions could save NHS £300m by 2021, says NHS Digital ... regular ‘nominated’ pharmacy will receive a paper token with a barcode that community pharmacy staff will scan to download the electronic prescription from the secure NHS database, the NHS Spine. electronic prescriptions will continue unchanged for the 32 million patients who have chosen a nominated pharmacy. The pilot showed that Phase 4 could increase the proportion of prescriptions sent electronically from arou ... Date: 21-10-2019 Categories: • News

electronic prescriptions for controlled drugs will ‘reduce administrative burden’ on pharmacies, says NHS Digital Pharmacies will have a ‘reduced administrative burden’ now that controlled drugs can be dispensed via the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), NHS Digital announced yesterday (28 February). Following successful trials a ... Date: 01-03-2019 Categories: • Latest News • More News • News

Three things about the future of pharmacy technology we learnt from NHS Digital ...   Speaking on the second day of the conference on Sunday (8 October), Ms Moore said NHS Digital is hoping that in the future, ‘we will be able to introduce electronic tokens’ to accompany electronic prescriptions. According to her, this could be done through ‘some sort of barcode’ on patients’ smartphones that would enable them to retrieve their prescribed item in any pharmacy in England. But Ms Moore h ... Date: 11-10-2018 Categories: • Latest News • More News • News

EPS urgent care setting roll-out will reduce pharmacists' 'administrative burden' ... nity pharmacists, the The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has predicted. Under the national roll-out – announced by NHS Digital on 29 March – community pharmacies will receive electronic prescriptions from providers including NHS 111, out-of-hours GPs, Clinical Assessments Services (CAS), walk-in centres, minor injuries units and urgent care centres. PSNC director of NHS services Alastair Buxto ... Date: 05-04-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Electronic Prescription Service saves NHS £130m in 3 years ... Service (EPS) has saved NHS England £130m over three years, according to NHS Digital. Through using EPS, community pharmacies have saved time and better managed their stocks by instantly receiving electronic prescriptions from GP surgeries. Pharmacists revealed they were able to save more than 90 minutes a day as a result of faster dispensing and fewer journeys to their GP practices to collect paper prescriptions, ... Date: 12-10-2017 Categories: • Latest News • News

Online attacks: The basics ... nce Toolkit assesses whether you have adequate security measures in place, that everything is password protected for example, not just in the pharmacy but also for mobile devices. “With the use of electronic prescriptions we do hold a lot of information even though we don’t offer online products and services. All our computer terminals are password protected, all staff have signed a confidentiality agreement and had i ... Date: 03-02-2016 Categories: • News

NEWS IN BRIEF: Antibiotics; Health Inequalities; Wolverhampton CCG; Hospital Overspend; New Antibiotic ... ect that supports the pharmacy profession’s desire to play a greater role in the care of patients, through secure and relevant access to patient information.” News: #Wolverhampton GPs now offering electronic prescriptions to their patients https://t.co/OaHYBNlPvf — Wolverhampton CCG (@NHSinWolves) November 20, 2015 Hospital overspend reaches £1.6bn Hospitals have overspent by £1.6bn, new figures released by M ... Date: 23-11-2015 Categories: • News • News in Brief

Pharmacy2U fined £130,000 ... d gender and contained information about the possible health conditions of the patient, including Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and erectile dysfunction. Pharmacy2U offer online services including electronic prescriptions, consultations with a GP and over the counter medicines as well as health and beauty products. Patients and customers have to complete an online registration form containing their name, sex, date ... Date: 23-10-2015 Categories: • Latest News • News • Practice and policy