Nexphase all clear for EPS roll out
David Croucher, community pharmacist in the Isle of Wight, uses
Nexphase as part of an IT package from UniChem |
IT supplier Cegedim Rx has been granted authority by NHS Connecting for Health to roll out its electronic prescription service software package Nexphase.
The move means that pharmacies in England and Wales using the Nexphase
system will be able to claim
the IT allowance payable under the community
pharmacy contractual framework (PJ, 15 October 2005, p471). According
to Cegedim Rx, there are currently over 1,200 pharmacies using the Nexphase
system.
Simon Driver, managing director of Cegedim Rx, commented: “This
is great news for our Nexphase customers and we are extremely pleased
that we have completed the substantial development work required by CfH
to attain this status. We expect Pharmacy Manager to gain its authority
to roll out in the next few weeks followed by Mediphase later in the
year. The next big step for us is now to deploy the software to the customers
and then also to connect them to N3 through one of our specialist partners
Pipex or Sirocom.”
The other commercially available EPS system to have been authorised for
roll out by NHS CfH is AAH’s Link Evolution system.
A list of suppliers, their systems and their systems’ technical
status is available on the NHS CfH website |
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