Healthcare informatics

Electronic prescribing and medication administration in hospital could be linked to error increases, study finds

Hospital electronic prescribing and medication administration may be linked with an overall increase in medication errors, a study published in BMC Health Services Research  has found.…

Rowlands Pharmacy plans to reduce pharmacy network in order to ‘invest in the future’

Rowlands Pharmacy has announced plans to sell 70 of its pharmacies — 69 in England and one in Wales — in order to focus its investment on automation.…

Community pharmacy vital to deploying ‘Big Data’ and artificial intelligence in practice, says PGEU

The Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union says community pharmacy could use new technologies to dedicate more working time to providing patient care, use patient data to provide a more personalised healthcare service and utilise mobile health tools to identify at-risk patients.…

The GP pharmacists leading a life-saving medicines safety project

A major initiative by pharmacists to reduce risky medicines use in the community will be rolled out across the country after it was found to reduce serious adverse events.…

NHS rolls out digital prescription prepayment certificates following successful pilot

Patients are now able to apply online for an instant digital prescription prepayment certificate following a successful national pilot.…

Electronic prescribing could have halted Gosport tragedy, RPS report says

The inappropriate use of opioid drugs, which was at the heart of the Gosport War Memorial Hospital scandal, could have been identified sooner if electronic prescribing had been in place.…

Pharmacists able to update GP patient records with flu vaccine data from winter 2019

Exclusive: Pharmacists will be able to share data on patients’ flu vaccinations with GPs from winter 2019, using NHS Digital’s new data sharing standards.…

The Carter review: how are hospitals measuring up?

Two years on from Lord Carter’s 2016 review of hospital efficiency, The Pharmaceutical Journal looks at the progress pharmacy departments in England are making towards meeting his challenging targets.…

More than 25,000 patients sign up to Well’s online prescription service in six months

Well Pharmacy has exceeded its targeted number of patients signing up to its online NHS prescription service by more than 3,000, The Pharmaceutical Journal has been told.…

Walgreens Boots Alliance partners with Microsoft to develop ‘new healthcare delivery models’

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft have signed a seven-year deal that will see the technology company become the IT system provider for Boots pharmacies.…