How will the Spine support the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)?
EPS will allow prescriptions generated by GPs to be transferred electronically from their surgeries to pharmacies, improving patient information, saving patients time and giving them more choice in their healthcare. GPs will send prescriptions to the Spine to make them available for dispensing. At the same time, prescribed medication details are added to patients’ electronic records held by the NHS CRS. The dispenser will obtain the electronic prescription from the Spine via the pharmacy’s computer system. Once the pharmacist has dispensed the medicine or appliance in the usual way, a message will be sent back to the Spine, recording what has been dispensed to the patient.
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