Scottish government to replace paper prescriptions by 2026 The ‘Digital prescribing and dispensing programme’ is aimed to introduce an advanced electronic signature that will replace the wet signature on prescriptions.…
Electronic prescription service used to dispense 100,000 items Digital Health and Care Wales said the 100,000th medication was dispensed in Boots Old Colwyn in Conwy, North Wales.…
Changes to hub-and-spoke legislation will be delayed, government tells CPE Community Pharmacy England says it has been told by the Department for Health and Social Care that the changes will not happen from 1 January 2025 as planned.…
Pharmacists made 150,000 patient interventions during anticoagulant safety audits, report finds The results of the two national audits revealed a significant increase in patients with a yellow anticoagulant alert card, from 66.5% in 2021/2023 to 73.3% in 2023/2024.…
IT system for independent prescribing pathfinder programme ready for rollout, says NHS England More than 200 community pharmacy pathfinder sites across England can now start to use the new electronic prescribing system for the Independent Prescribing in Community Pharmacy Pathfinder Programme.…
Weekly medicines data to be collected from hospital electronic prescribing systems The electronic prescribing and medicine administration system data will be used for “planning, commissioning and research purposes”, NHS England has said.…
Managing and reducing polypharmacy when prescribing An overview of the challenges that multiple medicines management may present for prescribers, with advice on approaches prescribing pharmacists can adopt to best support patients.…
Community pharmacies report prescription delays caused by global IT outage A defect found in a content update has impacted servers worldwide, including electronic patient record systems and software used in community pharmacies across the UK.…
GP Connect rolled out to ‘most pharmacies’ in England, says CPE The GP Connect Update Record allows community pharmacies to securely update a patient’s GP record following a consultation.…
‘Beyond weight loss’: what is the future of semaglutide? As warnings mount around the dangerous accessibility of semaglutide products Wegovy and Ozempic as quick weight loss hacks, researchers are questioning whether the drug has wider implications for other conditions.…
