Prescriptions – Digital Health

Pharmacy2U sees demand grow for NHS new medicine service

Cora Lydon — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 07:30:26 +0000

Pharmacy2U has become the number one provider of the NHS new medicine service, after a 68% increase in users of the service.

Digitisation of NHS prescriptions using E-Sign secure technology for National Clinical Homecare Association (NCHA)

DHI — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:40:15 +0000

The trade body for the clinical homecare industry, NCHA, put out a tender for a single, standardised digital solution to prescription processing. The 'low code', scalable solution provided by E-Sign reduced the process time from two days to two hours.

Electronic Prescription Service fulfils one billion items a year

Cora Lydon — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:00:12 +0000

The Electronic Prescription Service is now responsible for fulfiling 95% of all prescription requests, with 2021/22 seeing it dispense 996 million items.

Prescription ordering app Echo snapped up by McKesson UK

Owen Hughes — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 13:00:20 +0000

NHS prescription reminder and tracking app Echo has been acquired by the owner of LloydsPharmacy.

Co-op app will allows customers to manage repeat prescriptions

Hannah Crouch — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:05:51 +0000

Mobile technology company Apadmi has been tasked with helping to help support the development of the Co-op's new health app.

Digital system to be piloted to help crack down on prescription fraud

Hannah Crouch — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 23:05:32 +0000

Though the NHS Business Authority runs random checks, it is estimated that prescription fraud costs the NHS in England an estimated £256m a year.