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Date of prep: December 2020

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£16 million to introduce digital prescribing in hospitals

18th November 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

 

Sixteen hospitals across England will receive a share of nearly £16 million to introduce electronic prescriptions.

 

The NHS has said that it is on course to eliminate paper prescribing in hospitals and achieve the NHS Long Term Plan commitment to introduce digital prescribing across the entire NHS by 2024

 

These complete, single electronic records have helped improve patient safety across the NHS and save staff time, which they can spend on patients.

 

Instead of relying on handwritten notes and paper medicine charts, staff can now quickly access potentially life-saving information on prescribed medicines and patient history. This can also reduce medication errors by up to 30% when compared with the old paper systems.

 

The funding is part of a £78 million investment to achieve the NHS Long Term Plan commitment to eliminate paper prescribing in hospitals and introduce digital prescribing across the entire NHS by 2024.

 

The funding has been allocated as follows:

 

NHS trust Funding
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust £1,213,000
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust £970,000
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust £1,423,000
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust £1,485,000
West London Mental Health NHS Trust £1,308,000
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust £1,485,000
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust £96,000
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust £1,485,000
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust £400,000
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust £673,000
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Trust £882,000
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust £960,000
Medway NHS Foundation Trust £1,485,000
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust £342,000
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust £534,000
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust £1,188,000

 

Minister for Patient Safety, Nadine Dorries said:

 

“We are determined to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world. The introduction of digital prescribing systems has helped us reduce potentially deadly medication errors and save our hard-working staff valuable time, enabling them to dedicate their full attention and care to patients.

 

“As we enter what is set to be a challenging winter, the best way we can continue to protect patients and staff is if we all work together and continue to follow the national restrictions to suppress the virus.”

 

Dr Paul Curley, Deputy Medical Director and Chief Clinical Information Officer at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which received £1.6 million in 2018, said:

 

“At The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust we successfully implemented eMeds, our ePMA system. eMeds has revolutionised prescribing and improved medicines safety across the trust, and a number of benefits have been realised including high staff satisfaction levels, greater visibility of prescriptions and reduced prescribing errors.

 

“We deployed eMeds at a significant pace across 3 hospital sites in 10 months, against a planned implementation period of 24 months. We believe that our ePMA project has been one of our most successful implementations and was driven by the objective of clinical improvement. It was completed only months before the COVID-19 pandemic and so was hugely beneficial for our overall response.”

 

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