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28 March 2007

Additional suppliers catalogue tender released

Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender
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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
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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
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16 January 2007

Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom

Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom,
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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
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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
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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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