Ascribe announced today the ‘Go Live’ of Ascribe’s Web Pharmacy solution and Electronic Medicine’s Management (eMM) system at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. The clinical IT systems will replace the Trust’s paper-based systems, enhancing the entire prescription process throughout the Trust.

Ascribe's Web Pharmacy system is a robust and configurable solution that provides a seamless flow of information between prescribing, pharmacy and site administration processes, including stock management and finance, ensuring that all professionals involved have the necessary information with real-time decision support. Ascribe has also integrated the system with the Trust’s own clinical system, ensuring efficient access and consistency of information across the different systems.

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust currently do not have their own stock holding, so stock has traditionally been ordered from the local Acute Trust pharmacy via a paper-based fax system.  Now with the Web Pharmacy system in place, patient specific drugs can be ordered via the eMM system, eradicating the need for hand-written prescriptions, which provides efficiencies and also ensures patient safety through a documented system.

The Trust has also seen immediate benefit from the Web Pharmacy’s Discharge Prescription Summary desktop, which provides users with a more richly-featured discharge functionality, further reducing risk and improving patient safety by decreasing transcription errors during the discharge prescription process.

Speaking on behalf of Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Amanda Parkinson, Lead Pharmacist stated, “We are pleased with the new system from Ascribe. Turnaround-time from the discharge prescription being written, to the patient being discharged, has reduced from 1 day to an hour.

The user-friendly interface allows staff to record exactly the required level of information needed by General Practioners (GPs) and meets their reporting requirements. Additional requests for the system are being made by GPs within the Trust, having been so impressed with the new format of the discharge summaries from those currently using the system.”