The NHS hasn't achieved end-to-end closed loop medicines management Amna Khan-Patel Discussion summary: ● The goal is to track product from manufacturer to patient and to remove manual processes ● Challenges are ○ Infrastructure in each trust is different ○ Lack of interoperability ○ Absence of barcodes on products
○ Different providers of systems are not incentivised to talk to each other ○ Different trusts use different systems and so lack market leverage ○ Unit dosing not happening in UK
Next steps: ● Piloting will be key and will provide evidence of wider system benefits ● Need to get a supplier and organisation working together and developing interoperability ● Need to share work with the wider NHS when this is done
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