Pharmacy

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31 July 2008

London pharmacies use SMS for stop smoking drive

Pharmacies in London are to use text messaging to launch a smoking cessation campaign and offer customers support to kick
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23 July 2008

New EPS clinical director appointed

Dr Manpreet Pujara, one of Connecting for Health’s national GP clinical leads, has been appointed as clinical director for the
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15 July 2008

DH group to look at wider NHS CRS access

The Department of Health has convened a group to look at widening access to the NHS Care Records Service including
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10 June 2008

Caution urged on EPS release two contracts

Community pharmacists have been warned to take care when signing contracts for systems to support release two of the Electronic
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30 May 2008

Cegedim Rx launches patient txt messaging

Pharmacy systems supplier, Cegedim Rx are to launch a new patient messaging system called Message Dynamics as part of Pharmacy
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28 May 2008

Scotland provides long-term funding for IT support staff

Scotland has announced long-term funding for IM&T facilitators to work with GPs, pharmacists and dentists. The Scottish government has agreed
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27 May 2008

Forum set-up for pharmacy IT suppliers

Community pharmacy representatives have set up an IT forum with pharmacy IT suppliers to discuss concerns and possible solutions to
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16 May 2008

No GP systems in Fujitsu’s NHS contract

Fujitsu, local service provider for the Southern Programme for IT, is not yet contracted to supply a GP system but
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12 May 2008

Cegedim Rx plans telehealth move

Pharmacy systems specialists, Cegedim Rx, has partnered with Telehealth Solutions to integrate self-monitoring devices with their pharmacy systems. Telehealth Solutions
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29 April 2008

One in ten EPS pharmacies scanning all barcodes

Only 11% of pharmacies enabled for the Electronic Prescription Service are scanning every barcode prescription with problems including slow download
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