Pharmacists

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19 March 2009

IT vital to pharmacy progress

Use of the NHS Care Records Service by community pharmacists will be an essential part of the reform agenda for
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3 March 2009

Scottish e-prescription claims hit 60 per cent

More than 60% of payment claims for acute prescriptions in Scotland will be made electronically by May, according to the
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17 February 2009

SCR access widens again

Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a
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29 December 2008

Here was the news for 2008

The past 12 months in primary care IT have seen the implementation of a scheme to secure GP IT system
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24 December 2008

Further ETP progress in Scotland

Four out of five GPs and community pharmacists are now enabled for the electronic transfer of prescriptions in Scotland, according
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22 December 2008

Eclipse is phased out

Torex, the owner of the Eclipse pharmacy system, has announced that it is to dicontinue the development of the product
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22 December 2008

NI completes barcode presciptions project

Northern Ireland has announced that it has successfully completed its 2D barcoded prescription project. The Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System
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17 December 2008

Pharmacists get access to PDS for EPS R2

Community pharmacists are to be issued with new smartcards to give them access to the Personal Demographics Service. NHS Connecting
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8 December 2008

DH publishes EPS release two statutory directions

The Department of Health has published statutory directions for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service, which it hopes will
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25 November 2008

Patients divided on pharmacy records

Patient opinion is divided over whether pharmacists should have access to electronic records, with more than a quarter opposing such a
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