No reason why pharmacies cannot connect to NHS net and use it to exchange
info. All you need is to apply and fulfill the criteria in the code of
connection.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
GP Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton Sheffield S20 5JX
Tel;0114 269 5061 Fax;0114 269 7186
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask]
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jeff Green
>Sent: 11 July 1998 01:51
>To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: PHCSG conference at UMIST: A PCG IT perspective
>
>
>Owen,
> Apart from the distressing fact that pharmacy seems to be
>excluded from the
>NHS-net, I'd like a full prescribing history. The GP prescriptions are
>usually held on the pharmacy system, but the hospital prescribed/dispensed
>stuff isn't. I believe that I need to know if someone is taking
>methotrexate
>or warfarin if I am to be able to practice safely. Asking the patient what
>they are taking just isn't safe enough.
>
>Regards
>
>Jeff Green
>
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