Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish a specification for an electronic prescribing system for homecare medicines services.
The National Homecare Medicines Committee’s (NHMC) standardisation programme includes an NHS Digital strategy project. Within the NHMC there is a digital sub-group working closely with NHS Digital on the output-based specification for e-prescribing for homecare medicines services to use an Electronic Prescribing System. This work is at an advanced stage in preparation for consultation with NHMC during 2023.