Digital Medicines

Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Programme

An overview
Keith Farrar, SRO, Digital Medicines, NHS England
 NHS Digital Vision
To empower patients to take greater control of their own
health and care
To reduce the administrative burden on health and care
professionals
To equip the NHS with the technology and information that
will transform care and ensure the workforce gets the most
out of it
To improve the quality, availability and integrity of health
data, so that frontline staff, researchers and decision
makers are better informed
 Our Opportunity

Minimise the use of paper in medicines optimisation

Enhance information flows into and out of pharmacy
Energise the electronic management of medicines in
secondary care
Safely, securely gather medicines data, analyse,
conclude and inform the future
Provide patients with greater control of their
medicines
 Our Programmes
Digital Medicines Domain organised in to three
programmes:
Digitising Community Pharmacy and Medicines
Pharmacy Supply Chain and Secondary Uses
Integrating Pharmacy across Care Settings
Digitising Community Pharmacy and Medicines

Digitising Community Pharmacy and Medicines

Electronic Real Time

Pharmacy Securing
Prescription Exemption Patient
Systems IT Excellence in
Service Checking Enablement
(Contract) Pharmacy IT
(EPS) (RTEC)
Integrating Pharmacy across Care Settings

Integrating Pharmacy across Care Settings

Transfer of
Summary Pharmacy Information EPS Tracker
Care Record Integration across Care into NHS 111
Settings
 Integrating Pharmacy across Care Settings

Transfer of
Summary Pharmacy Information EPS Tracker
Care Record Integration across Care into NHS 111
Settings

Formal and informal digital, secure transfers of information

Minimum national dataset available for the recording of clinical care

within community pharmacy
Pharmacy Supply Chain and Secondary Uses

Pharmacy Supply Chain and Secondary Uses

Implementing Medicines
Transforming Single
the Falsified Information
Pharmacy Identifier for
Medicines for Secondary
Supply Chain Prescribers
Directive Uses
 Pharmacy Supply Chain and Secondary Uses

Implementing Medicines
Transforming Single
the Falsified Information
Pharmacy Identifier for
Medicines for Secondary
Supply Chain Prescribers
Directive Uses

The digitisation of the hospital pharmacy supply chain - including the

supply for homecare patients - to support business changes identified
in the Carter Review
 Pharmacy Supply Chain and Secondary Uses

Implementing Medicines
Transforming Single
the Falsified Information
Pharmacy Identifier for
Medicines for Secondary
Supply Chain Prescribers
Directive Uses

Facilitating the system supplier and business change associated with

the introduction of 2D barcodes on medication packs to allow unique
identification
 Pharmacy Supply Chain and Secondary Uses

Implementing Medicines
Transforming Single
the Falsified Information
Pharmacy Identifier for
Medicines for Secondary
Supply Chain Prescribers
Directive Uses

Deliver the capability to collect, link and analyse information about the
use of medicines across all care settings; making this information
available securely, efficiently and appropriately
 Key messages

Scheduled update of systems for dm+d

Pilot of homecare hub to inform strategic solution
Establishing clinician to clinician communication
Transfer of care
Referral
Using standard NHS communication mechanisms
Ensuring medication safety through FMD
Reviewing, refining and improving the information
available from the secondary uses of medicines data