The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7355 p783
25 June 2005

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Progress outlined for NHS IT

NHS Connecting for Health has published its annual report (PDF 930K) outlining progress with the national programme for IT during 2004–05.

The report summarises the status of aspects of the programme including the NHS care records service, “choose and book”, and N3 connectivity.

Regarding electronic transmission of prescriptions, the report says that 4,723 prescriptions were produced by the system between 22 February and 7 April this year, and that GP, pharmacy and patient user groups are working with the programme team to provide advice before the main roll out later this year.

The report says that over 30,000 clinicians are registered users of the NHS Care Records Service data “spine”, and that by May about 350,000 people working in the NHS in England were being supported by N3 connections.