Issue No 4 - July 2009
ePharmacy Programme Update
The Acute Medication Service (eAMS) continues to go well and we are now processing around 900,000 electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) GP10s per week! It is very encouraging that over 60% of all AMS GP10s produced are now being claimed electronically by pharmacies showing that the end to end service is well established.
The Chronic Medication Service (CMS) started on time in April with the first live GP Practice and pharmacies in NHS Fife (supported by new CMS versions of the registration system and the ePharmacy message store). A project team in NHS Fife is working very closely with the programme team throughout the ‘early adopter phase’ during which we are checking that the technology works (we have already seen end to end electronic registration, CMS GP10s and CMS dispensing information going back to the GP Practice) and more importantly developing the learning from this phase into training, communications and support material needed for full CMS rollout. The early adopter phase will last several months, with a gradual increase in GP practices, Pharmacies and GP & CP systems over the summer. The feedback so far from GP Practice and pharmacy has been very positive.