It is now 18 years since the first electronic prescription was received by a community pharmacy in February 2005. Back then, the Co-op pharmacy on Scott Street in Keighley, West Yorkshire, received a prescription for atenolol from their local GP practice. Instead of coming into the pharmacy through the front door in the form of [...]
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From 1st February 2023, NHS Digital teams and responsibilities have been absorbed into NHS England. This change follows a review which looked into how digital transformation could occur across the NHS in line with the objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan and a subsequent decision that NHS Digital would be merged into NHS England. [...]
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PSNC will be holding a webinar on Thursday 23rd February at 7pm to help community pharmacy contractors to complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit for 2022/23. We worked in collaboration with NHS Digital on the new requirements and made improvements to this year’s Toolkit. We encourage contractors to register and join us in this webinar as we [...]
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PSNC has published new guidance to help community pharmacy contractors to complete the 2022/23 Data Security and Protection Toolkit. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by Friday 30th June 2023. We recommend that contractors complete the Toolkit as soon as possible. We collaborated with NHS Digital to [...]
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Pharmacy team members can subscribe to alerts about EPS and other services, through the NHS Digital service status pages (HSCN nww link requiring the pharmacy PMR terminal). If you are unable to access Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) webpage above then you may complete this form and submit it to register for alerts. NHS [...]
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