New functionality to provide practices with structured information about pharmacy consultations for blood pressure checks, contraception and Pharmacy First (minor illness and clinical pathways) will begin a phased roll out next week.
Practice staff will no longer have to manually manage this information via NHSmail; data will go straight into the workflow and can be automatically filed or viewed and filed with a single click.
Practices will see a gradual increase in messages as pharmacy systems go live.
The service will reduce burden and improve patient safety by minimising the number of times information is inputted and showing relevant information more quickly in the Summary Care Record.