Pharmacy

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13 December 2006

GPASS accidentally prescribes Viagra to smokers

A glitch with the Scottish GP system GPASS could have resulted in smokers trying to quit the habit being mistakenly prescribed
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2 October 2006

Pharmacy Manager gets CfH approval for EPS

Cegedim Rx has received authorisation from NHS Connecting for Health to deploy its system Pharmacy Manager for connection to the
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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
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28 September 2006

MHRA target UK illegal drug websites

  The Medicines Healthcare and Regulatory Authority have conducted raids on five UK-based websites thought to be selling unlicensed or
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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
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21 August 2006

NI to link barcodes on prescriptions to EPRs

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has announced it has signed a £6.8m contract
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15 August 2006

Talking pill bottles read out their own labels

Pharmacies in Northern California have started to stock talking prescription bottles which aim to help elderly or partially sighted patients
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7 August 2006

Cegedim gets authorisation to deploy for EPS

Cegedim Rx has received authorisation from NHS Connecting for Health to deploy its pharmacy management system Nexphase for use with
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4 August 2006

NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project

Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record
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27 July 2006

Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside

Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new
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