EPS and eRD for clinicians
Guidance from NHS England requires a General Practice to consider putting all suitable patients on electronic repeat dispensing (eRD).
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There has been guidance from NHS England asking General Practice to consider putting all suitable patients on electronic repeat dispensing (eRD).
This will help when their next repeat prescriptions are due, as part of the preparedness for Coronavirus.
Effective eRD can save up to 46 minutes a day of GP time, and if 80% of all repeats were issued as repeat dispensing, 2.7 million GP hours could be saved.
The NHS Digital website has information on switching your practice to EPS. See Health Innovation Wessex video on making it work.
If you decide as a practice that you would like to take this work forward and you still have sessional medicines management pharmacists coming into your practice then they can help with the searches and identification of suitable patients.
