Controlled substance prescription system adopted by Avon and
Wiltshire
The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) has
adopted Ascribe’s Substance Misuse System to manage prescriptions for
controlled substances.
John Golding, Drug and Alcohol Area Manager for Wiltshire said, “AWP
welcomes this system as previously we had no computerised method of
entering, managing or printing client prescription data. The reporting
and analysis of our prescribing data should allow the Trust to make more
collective decisions regarding patient care and to implement best
practice across our prescribing area.”
The software can be integrated with patient administration systems and
is compliant with the NHS National Programme for IT (NpfIT)
interoperability and messaging standards.
In the first phase the system was rolled out to two of the Trust’s
mental health units: West Wiltshire Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service
(SDAS) and North Somerset SDAS.
AWP joins trusts in Birmingham, Rotherham, Lancashire, Merseyside and
Berkshire that have adopted Bolton-based Ascribe’s Substance Misuse
System.
Source: bjhc&im June 2006
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