Pharmacists Archives

10 April 2007

Pharmacists reject prescription printing plan

Community pharmacists claim they may still have to print out more than a quarter of prescription tokens when release two

27 March 2007

Initial sites wanted for the next phase of EPS

NHS Connecting for Health is recruiting primary care trusts to be initial implementation sites for release two of the electronic

27 February 2007

Scottish GPs to start issuing barcoded scrips

Scotland’s electronic transmission of prescriptions project is to get underway in April when GP practices will begin to produce barcoded

5 February 2007

Systems Solution get EPS clinical authority certificate

Irish pharmacy specialists Systems Solutions have passed Connecting for Health’s Release 1 compliance for its electronic prescriptions service (EPS) product

15 January 2007

Wider engagement with pharmacists could yield benefits

Wider engagement with community pharmacists which could deliver a range of new services with the appropriate IT support and access

15 January 2007

EPS tops 10m prescription mark

More than 10 million electronic prescription messages have now been transmitted using the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), NHS Connecting for

21 December 2006

ScriptSwitch partner with First DataBank on Multilex

A new partnership will enable the implementation of First Data Bank’s Multilex Drug Datafile into ScriptSwitch’s real-time prescribing decision support

29 September 2006

Pharmacists call for greater say in CRS taskforce

The leading high street pharmacy operators have criticised the exclusion of pharmacists from the government’s NHS Summary Care Record Taskforce

20 September 2006

SMS alerts for prescriptions launched

Irish pharmaceutical software company, Systems Solutions Limited, has incorporated SMS text messages, e-mails and direct mail functionality into its QicScript

4 September 2006