Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare is introducing electronic prescribing and medicines (EPMA)
The Trust have introduced Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) to some of inpatients services and its community teams. This service is known as EPMA and is a secure way of creating a prescription electronically. EPMA is commonly used across primary care (GP) and so you may already be using the service with your GP.
What does this mean for our patients?
- The prescription will be sent electronically to your chosen nominated pharmacy (within England). There is no need to collect a paper prescription from the issuing service as it will be sent electronically.
- The issuing service will check which pharmacy you would like to collect your prescription from each time they create a prescription for you.
- You do not need computer access to have a nomination or use EPMA.
- Your pharmacy nomination for hospital or outpatient clinic prescriptions is separate and does not affect any existing prescription arrangements you have with your GP.
Will I receive a paper prescription?
No, the prescription will be sent to your nominated pharmacy where it will be dispensed as normal for you to collect. Helping us to work towards a paper free NHS.
More information
Your service will be able to provide you with more information as and when they start to use EPMA. Not all services will be using it right away but we will update our service pages to reflect which teams are using the service.