Hi there!
Anyone out there seen the "Connecting for heath" ETP leaflet.
I'm worried. The leaflet says that labels will be automatically generated by retrieving the Rx. What about interaction checks? Or notes like "MUST have COX Atenolol? Will we still get those?
The main worry for me though is the infrastructure set up to do this.
I assumed we'd receive Rxs like e-mail direct from the surgeries, this worried me anyway because of how easily e-mail systems can break down especially with the workload this will be under.
But no! It seems that the GP writes an Rx, sends it to a central NHS server and then we have to access that server to retrieve the Rx.
How many different ways can that go wrong? I could probably think of a dozen without even breaking a sweat!
Six months ago the head of the local LPC told us that the only working ETP system in use amounted to a GP sending Rxs the the Pharmacist in the same building! I do hope they pull their finger out and do full testing before starting! (Like they did with the Oxygen changeover!)
Linnear MRPharmS
Anyone out there seen the "Connecting for heath" ETP leaflet.
I'm worried. The leaflet says that labels will be automatically generated by retrieving the Rx. What about interaction checks? Or notes like "MUST have COX Atenolol? Will we still get those?
The main worry for me though is the infrastructure set up to do this.
I assumed we'd receive Rxs like e-mail direct from the surgeries, this worried me anyway because of how easily e-mail systems can break down especially with the workload this will be under.
But no! It seems that the GP writes an Rx, sends it to a central NHS server and then we have to access that server to retrieve the Rx.
How many different ways can that go wrong? I could probably think of a dozen without even breaking a sweat!
Six months ago the head of the local LPC told us that the only working ETP system in use amounted to a GP sending Rxs the the Pharmacist in the same building! I do hope they pull their finger out and do full testing before starting! (Like they did with the Oxygen changeover!)
Linnear MRPharmS
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