Pharmacists

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3 July 2007

MPs call for pharmacists to have access to CRS

Pharmacists in primary and secondary care must be given read-write access to the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), according to
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12 June 2007

Data payments announced for Scottish pharmacists

Community pharmacists in Scotland are to receive payments for ensuring the data quality of their patient records ahead of the
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30 May 2007

New deal to deploy data mining tool

Quicksilva Software Solutions has secured a deal with life sciences specialists Applied InSilico to deploy their artificial intelligence-based data mining
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22 May 2007

Independent pharmacists urged to upgrade for EPS

Connecting for Health is urging individual pharmacists to upgrade their systems for release one of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
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22 May 2007

Careful and cautious progress on Electronic Prescriptions

Tim Donohoe, the head of the NHS Electronic Prescriptions Service programme, tells Fiona Barr why progress will remain 'careful and
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21 May 2007

Government backs pharmacist access to EPR

The government has backed plans for pharmacists to be allowed access to electronic patient records but says the public will
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15 May 2007

Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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11 April 2007

Voicemails prompt patients to pick up medicine

A message system that enables pharmacists to leave an automatically-generated voicemail for patients whose prescriptions are ready for collection is to be offered
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10 April 2007

Pharmacists reject prescription printing plan

Community pharmacists claim they may still have to print out more than a quarter of prescription tokens when release two
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27 March 2007

Initial sites wanted for the next phase of EPS

NHS Connecting for Health is recruiting primary care trusts to be initial implementation sites for release two of the electronic
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