Introducing a system that could create more work and cause new types of errors seems counterintuitive,but these are some of the problems being encountered by hospital pharmacists who are implementing electronic prescribing and medicines administration(EPMA)systems as part of NHS England’s plan to go paperless.Some hospitals have had electronic prescribing(e-prescribing)systems in place since the early 1990s.But,in the past five years,there has been a real push for EPMA systems to be adopted across the board in England as the NHS strives to meet its target of going paperless by 2024-an ambition that has already fallen behind from former health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s aim of digitising secondary care by 2020.
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