by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
With 2672 R2 enabled pharmacies and 57 R2 enabled doctors practices now ready to issue and dispense electronic prescriptions, it really does look like this long awaited development could really be nationally implemented this year. (Figures at 14th December 2011) The...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Now that the consultation period on the proposed change of pharmacy contract applications to the new Pharmacy Needs Assessments (PNA’s) basis has passed, we must all wait to see how much of the proposals will be implemented and when. Also, there is no clear...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 19, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
**** 2014 UPDATE **** Reading this old blog, I cannot help but consider what a great concept this was. Unfortunately, it didn’t work and ended in the worst possible way. Funnily enough, people still ask us how do they make internet pharmacies work or even do...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
Another new year, another new year for Pharma to grasp the opportunity to work more closely with pharmacy to develop adherence enhancing activities that benefit patients, Pharma and pharmacists, but will it begin to happen in 2012? Evidence suggest that the degree of...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Now that the largest two GP prescribing software system suppliers have just recently been given national roll out authority for the Electronic Prescription System Release 2 (EPSR2), it seems reasonable to expect to see Electronic prescribing really get going this...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 9, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
After what feels like an eternity of waiting, the two largest GP software system providers now have national roll-out authority for their software, so the rate of deployment of EPS R2 by GPs is bound to increase over the coming months. Most pharmacy software...
