How we introduced electronic prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic

摘要

In 2018, Barts Health NHS Trust (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regional-funding-announced-for-electronic-prescribing) was one of 13 NHS trusts allocated funding to start implementing an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) system. My colleagues and I were excited by how the new system would generate clinical data that allow prescribing trends to be analysed and create new pathways for auditing medication use. However, launching any changes in a large NHS trust can be a massive challenge-even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic, when staff are exhausted and working incredibly hard.