Tom,
>The Scottish Office machine has a laser printer with it to allow trials of
>bar coding scripts. I understood that you could get quite good barcodes
>with ink jet or even dot matrix but I didn't ask too loud till we got the
>machine ;-)
PRS/HealthPlus issues bar-coded prescriptions. A version of the script is
e-mailed to the pharmacy, and if the bar-code on the paper script (which is
still required) matches the bar code generated at the pharmacy then hey
presto the right person gets their medicine.
Regards
Jeff Green
Community Locum and Consultant Pharmacist
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