Patient records

Pharmacy access to full patient records is more critical than ever

Pharmacists must be given full access to patient records to enable them to expand their role in the health service and provide better patient care.…

Single-click access to patient records for pharmacists officially launched

More than 3,000 community pharmacies in England can now access their patients’ summary care records (SCRs) through a new one-click function.…

USB memory sticks could help reduce medicine errors after hospital discharge

Giving patients a USB device containing electronic medicine records at hospital discharge could help prevent medicine errors as they move between hospital and the community, a study published in the British Journal of General Practice has found.…

NHS Digital may trial pharmacy access to patient records using a tablet this year

Pharmacists could soon access summary care records (SCR) using an Apple iPad rather than a smartcard, under a new NHS Digital pilot.…

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.…

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.…

Why are few pharmacies using the summary care record?

Lack of time and not being able to access the required information means that many community pharmacists in England are not using abbreviated patient records online.…

RPS to dispel ‘myths’ around summary care record

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has launched a survey to explore how pharmacists in England use the summary care record.…

Web therapy: how pharmacists are leading the way on telehealth

A solution developed to deliver clinical pharmacy services to remote dispensing GP practices in Scotland is being used as a model to expand telehealth services across the rest of NHS Highland. …

MPs back national scheme for pharmacy to help manage long-term conditions

All patients with one or more long-term conditions must have access to a personalised care plan by 2020 to help them take control of their health, a report written by the All-Party Pharmacy Group says.…