Better EPS
Electronic Prescription Service
Prescribe safer with Better EPS
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What is EPS?
With Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), prescribers can send prescriptions to dispensers such as pharmacies electronically, and patients can pick up their medications directly from their closest pharmacy. Unlike paper prescriptions, electronic prescriptions can’t get lost between the doctor and the pharmacy.
Why adopt EPS?
Efficiency
Reduce the need for physical prescriptions, and save time and resources.
Convenience
Improve accessibility by empowering Patients to collect medications from any EPS-enabled pharmacy.
Safety
Reduce the risk of transcription errors and improve transparency by providing a complete medication history.
Continuity
Ensure continuity in prescribing and medication management, and provide clinicians with a holistic view.
Built for real world results
Comprehensive formulary management
Unlike standalone portals, our EPS integration enables you to select medication and appropriate prescriptions across various care settings. This ensures you can make informed prescribing decisions with full visibility of the patient’s medication history, enhancing both safety and efficiency.
Complete prescribing context
We deliver the full medication context within the broader clinical workflow. This means you can see everything prescribed via EPS and other prescribing pathways, ensuring that prescriptions are accurate, appropriate, and consistent with the patient’s treatment plan.
Superior decision support
We are fully integrated with specialised decision support systems, providing real-time guidance for safer and more effective prescribing. This feature helps you avoid errors and ensure that each prescription aligns with best practices and patient needs.
Seamless user experience
We offer a fully integrated, intuitive user experience. Our solution seamlessly fits into existing workflows, providing easy access to EPS data, prescribing history, and decision support tools all in one place without the need to switch between disconnected systems. This ensures that you have all the context you need right when you need it.
The key benefits of Better EPS
Ready to use across your trust: EPS is fully approved for nationwide NHS deployment, so you can adopt it with confidence.
Faster implementation: It seamlessly connects with existing NHS systems and workflows, reducing project complexity.
Trusted and future-proof : NHS Full Rollout Approval assures our service meets the highest technical and clinical standards, giving you long-term reliability.
Better experience for staff and patients: Think smoother prescribing processes, fewer manual steps, and safer, faster access to medicines.
Ready to start?
We are here to make your prescribing process easier so you can dedicate your time to patient care with more confidence and ease.
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Bringing medication management to the next level.
An ePMA that enhances patient safety, enables safer medication management, and optimises the work of healthcare professionals.
FAQ
What is Better EPS?
Better EPS is an Electronic Prescription Service for secondary care and outpatient settings that enables prescribers to send prescriptions directly to community pharmacies electronically. It has NHS Full Rollout Approval and can be deployed standalone or integrated within Better Meds.
What is NHS Full Rollout Approval and does Better EPS have it?
NHS Full Rollout Approval means a system has been fully assessed and approved by NHS England for nationwide deployment. Better EPS holds this approval, meaning any NHS trust in England can adopt it with confidence that it meets NHS technical and clinical standards.
What are the benefits of Better EPS?
Better EPS eliminates paper prescriptions, reduces transcription errors, gives patients the freedom to collect prescriptions from any EPS-enabled pharmacy, and provides a complete medication history visible to both prescribers and pharmacists. It integrates with NHS national systems and reduces administrative burden for clinical and pharmacy teams.
Which NHS trusts use Better EPS?
Better EPS is used by NHS trusts including The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Wye Valley NHS Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, and others across England.