The UK government has failed to meet a key target to eliminate paper prescribing in hospitals and to introduce digital or “e-prescribing” across the entire NHS by 2024, an expert panel has concluded.1
The pledge, which was designed to improve hospital pharmacy services, is one of a string of pharmacy pledges that the government is failing to deliver on, said the panel convened by the Commons Health and Social Care Committee.
The panel, chaired by the senior doctor and former Royal College of Physicians’ president Jane Dacre, evaluated the government’s delivery on nine pharmacy policy commitments across five areas community pharmacy, integrated care, hospital pharmacy, workforce education and training, and extended services using Care Quality Commission-style ratings.
The pledge to eliminate paper prescribing, which received £73m of central funding from …
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