Electronic Prescriptions Service Latest News

EPSr2 phase 4

See our Electronic Prescription Service page for a downloadable PDF briefing “Important information about the EPS Release 2 Phase 4 Pilots”.

20th July 2016

EPS Prescription Tracker

Having difficulty with the new EPS Prescription Tracker? – It may require you to “enable cookies” and/or “update Java to the latest version”. Your IT…

17th November 2014

Current National Spine Problems and Electronic Prescribing

We are aware there are problems at the moment – please keep reporting issues to your system suppliers as the situation is constantly changing: don’t just…

20th October 2014

Step by step guide to setting up Smartcards

Suggested steps for Pharmacies re setting up Smartcards has been created by the Smartcard Team to help you with the process for applying for and setting…

8th October 2014

News from HSCIC on EPS Spine

Spine 2 Core transition and EPS Update Further analysis and reports from suppliers have identified a number of issues following last weekend’s transition to Spine…

2nd September 2014

Transition to Spine 2 rescheduled for 22-25 August 2014

“Our top priority is that Spine services transition in a safe way that will have minimum disruption to the NHS and patients, and in a…

30th July 2014

EPS – GP expectations and pharmacy success

Click to read the July Bulletin from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

22nd July 2014

Transition of core services to Spine 2 and the impact on EPS

The upgrade to the core Spine services will take place between late on Friday 25 and early on Monday 28 July 2014. The disruption to…

27th June 2014

EPS2 – regular updates

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9th September 2013

EPS2: going live…

This is the latest report for Swindon & Wiltshire LPC contractors on GP practices going live with EPS2.

18th June 2013