Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSPaediatric hospital rolls out electronic prescribing system
London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) has become the first specialist paediatric hospital in the UK to complete a trust-wide roll out of the EPMA system.
The Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system is provided by medicines management specialist JAC. The system is currently live on all wards except intensive care units.
The implementation of the EPMA system will improve patient safety by reducing the incidence and severity of prescribing and administration errors, and the level of risk associated with manual systems.
Christine Booth, a senior pharmacist at GOSH, said: “The paper-based prescribing process has many points of weakness that an electronic medication record can instantly address such as illegible handwriting or missing patient/drug information both of which can have serious consequences.
“Implementation of JAC’s EPMA system has already shown to deliver early benefits in medication safety. However, there is scope for future benefits as the software develops to support complex prescribing and administration.”
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