East Hampshire to host ETP pilot
East Hampshire Primary Care Trust is to host an electronic
transfer of prescriptions pilot trial run by the TransScript consortium.
The trial is expected to start in early December
with one GP practice and four or five local pharmacies. Participation
in the trial will be open to all pharmacies in the area that are able
to install appropriate software.
For the purposes of the trial, patients who are
already part of existing collection and delivery schemes for repeat prescriptions
can give pharmacies consent to collect prescription data electronically.
The prescriptions are then transmitted directly from the surgery to any
pharmacy nominated by the patient for dispensing as normal. An endorsed
version of the prescription is then sent electronically to the Prescription
Pricing Authority for payment. At present, however, patients still have
to complete paper declarations of exemption status.
Mr Strange said that patient consent is done at
the pharmacy end to avoid the direction of prescriptions by GPs and to
allow patients the widest choice of where they can collect their medicines.
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