Patients with Boots as a nominated pharmacy in England can now use the NHS app to see whether their prescription is ready to collect.
The Pharmacist understands that Boots is the first supplier to roll out the functionality, with other suppliers planned to go live soon.
More than 1,300 Boots pharmacies across England are now using the prescription tracking functionality, which allows patients to monitor the status of their repeat prescription through the NHS app.
The app will also show where the pharmacy has been unable to dispense one or more of the items – shown as 'item cancelled' in the patient-facing app.
According to the Community Pharmacy England (CPE) IT Group, Boots is one of four suppliers involved in the initial roll-out of the functionality –along with Cegedim, Invatech, and Apotec.
Boots has confirmed to The Pharmacist that is is the first supplier to roll out prescription tracking within the NHS app.
Cegedim, Invatech, and Apotec have been approached for comment.
And CPE said that the NHS App team will engage with more suppliers from January 2025.
It has also recently been revealed that IT suppliers are testing pharmacy access to GP records.
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