Royal Pharmaceutical Society Archives

3 March 2016

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

This month’s round up includes: a new site for the NHS and SMEs on working together, a specialist e-prescribing deployment,

2 October 2015

Pharmacists demand patient record access

Community pharmacists in the UK should have read and write access to full electronic records for their patients, says the

30 April 2014

Pharmacists want SCR access

Access to the Summary Care Record is essential, a community pharmacist has said as NHS England considers launching a pilot

27 January 2010

Pharmacists given tight IG deadlines

Community pharmacists in England have been given until the end of March to assess their compliance with NHS Connecting for

7 January 2010

MHRA seeks prison for fake drug pedlars

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has confirmed that it is consulting on measures to introduce prison sentences

7 August 2009

Pharmacists warn on personal records

Pharmacists’ representatives have claimed that use of private health record services such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault could risk

17 April 2009

New logo identifies safe online pharmacy

One in four GPs have treated patients for adverse reactions to medicines bought online, according to a survey. The poll

6 April 2009

Doctors call for Google to change ad policies

Doctors are calling on internet search engine Google to change its advertising policies to prevent links to unproven remedies appearing

17 February 2009

SCR access widens again

Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a

8 July 2008

Latest BNFC interfaces with NHS dm+d

The new online edition of the latest BNF for Children – BNFC 2008 – will include a new interface to