Dispensing

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23 June 2006

Less than 1.5% of electronic prescriptions seamless

E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic prescriptions issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just under 30,000 have
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29 March 2006

Avon and Wiltshire roll out controlled drug service

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has begun installing web-based software to help manage and track the dispensing
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28 March 2006

FDBE chosen to implement dm+d guide

First Databank Europe (FDBE), the specialist provider of electronic drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support systems, has been selected
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22 February 2006

St Mary’s goes live with JAC pharmacy management

St Mary’s NHS Trust has become the second trust in London to go live with a new pharmacy management system
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24 November 2005

Wristband risk to patient safety highlighted

A drive to raise awareness of the importance of patients wearing hospital wristbands should make barcode and RFID technology more
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22 November 2005

South London and Maudsley goes live with JAC

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has gone live across the trust with a new pharmacy management system from JAC
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3 November 2005

IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog

 Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not
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14 October 2005

ETP should be fully operational by end of 2007

Electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) will be deployed over two releases and should be fully operational by the end of
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29 September 2005

Accreditation for e-prescription service software

Pharmacy software specialist, Systems Solutions, has received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health to transmit prescriptions electronically through N3, the
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2 September 2005

Illegal online pharmacies ‘threat to public health’

A paper published by think-tank the Centre for Reform has warned of the dangers of unregulated online pharmacies and is
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