HomePharmacyE-prescription system goes live

Almost all of Scotland’s GP practices now have electronic links to community pharmacies in the first system of its kind in the UK.

The electronic Acute Medication Service (eAMS) allows prescriptions to be transmitted directly, cutting down on paperwork and reducing risk of error.

Patients are still given paper prescriptions but these contain a unique barcode.

This brings up their details when scanned by a pharmacist.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said: “We have a very successful prescribing system in Scotland, with around one million paper prescriptions written by GPs every week and dispensed in community pharmacies.

“But we can always do more and that’s what eAMS will achieve.”

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