EPS news and events
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EPS Bulletin
EPS Events
'Enhancing patient care through innovation' - Royal Pharmaceutical Society Annual Conference 2012 - Sunday 9 to Monday 10 September, Birmingham International Convention Centre.
EPS News
15 May 2012 - Microtest Evolution 11 achieve FRA to make it two GP systems in one week.
There are now a total of four GP systems able to offer EPS Release 2, with InPractice and EMIS Web both achiveing FRA in 2011. More information on supplier status.
10 May 2012 - TPP awarded full rollout approval for SystmOne
01 May 2012 - "From the start we realised what a time saving system EPS Release 2 is" Jan Norgate, Practice Manager at the White House Surgery in Folkestone.
In the March issue of Kent LMC's In Touch newsletter, Dr John Allingham shares Jan's experience of starting to use EPS Release 2 in the practice and gives an insight into a few hurdles they had to overcome and the benefits that they are realising from using the service.
25 April 2012 - EPS at the PSNC Conference 2012
EPS attended this year's PSNC Community Pharmacy Conference where the theme was Community Pharmacy - fitting into the new healthcare jigsaw. Mohammed Hussain, Pharmacist and EPS Clinical Safety Assurance Manager and Rachel Habergham, EPS Programme Head were on hand to answer questions and chat to delegates. Lindsay McClure, PSNC's NHS IT lead delivered a workshop on EPS and NHS IT, covering the latest information on EPS deployment.
11 April 2012 - Extension to the membership of Locum Pharmacy Organisaton (FFFFF)
Pharmacy technicians and dispensing assistants may need to work at many other community pharmacies at short notice. To ensure patient safety, prevent additional costs and maintain information governance standards a letter has been issued by NHS CFH confirming the use of the locum pharmacy organisation (FFFFF code) has been extended to include dispensing staff. (PDF, 42.3kB)
What is being said about EPS
22 May 2012 - Government urges pharmacy to stick with EPS
18 May 2012 - "Pharmacy's liberator has finally arrived"
Anas Hassan, trainee pharmacist writes about his enthusiams for IT development in the NHS "for the benefit of the patients and those working within the NHS." Read more in his blog.
11 May 2012 - TPP SystmOne Receives EPS R2 Roll-out Approval
TPP SystmOne has been granted EPS Release 2 roll-out approval. SystmOne was the first GP clinical system to enter EPS Release 2 implementation in 2009 and joins two other GP systems with this status, EMIS Web and InPractice Vision. A fourth GP system, Microtest is expected to achieve this status shortly. PSNC online.
10 May 2012 - EPS R2 Spine Resilience
On 5th May 2012, a Disaster Recovery exercise was held to test to ensure that if there was ever a failure in one data centre, pharmacies could continue to access the service to create and retrieve prescriptions electronically. The switch over and back again went smoothly with no data loss and a shorter than anticipated service outage. PSNC online
27 April 2012 - EPS clean sweep on Isle of Wight
NHS Isle of Wight has become the first primary care trust in England to go live with the electronic prescription service in all its community pharmacies and GP practices. PJ Online (subscription required).
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