The Health & Social Care Information Centre

To allow a secure way to prescribe in Primary Care (General Practice / Community), transmit to a Dispenser (e.g. community pharmacist) and send a reimbursement message to the Reimbursement Agency (NHSBSA).

Country / Region

EMEA

e-Prescribing

To allow a secure way to prescribe in Primary Care (General Practice / Community), transmit to a Dispenser (e.g. community pharmacist) and send a reimbursement message to the Reimbursement Agency (NHSBSA).

Location: England, United Kingdom

Description

NHS Primary care prescribers in England (~8,000 GP practices), dispensers with a NHS dispensing contract (~12,000 dispensing sites) and the national reimbursement agency.

Scope

SNOMED CT will be used as the coding as the sole method of communicating the coded medicine and device information in the electronic prescription method.