Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the Electronic Prescription Service to be made available in dispensing GP practices.

In December 2017, NHS Digital gave full roll out approval and assurance of a solution developed by EMIS Health to allow dispensing general practitioner (GP) practices to use the Electronic Prescription Service within their practice dispensary.

EMIS Health supplies the EMIS Web prescribing system to approximately 50% of dispensing GP practices and will look to implement the Proscript Connect dispensing system at these sites in the first instance. This is expected to commence during summer 2018.