NHS Electronic Prescription Service


The NHS Electronic Prescription Service is part of the NHS National Programme for IT of the National Health Service in England. It enables the electronic transfer of medical prescriptions from doctors to pharmacies and other dispensers and electronic notification to the reimbursement agency, NHS Prescription Services.
The project is to be delivered in two releases:
In August 2018 NHS Digital announced that all the 1,311 eligible GP practices in London could use the service.
From November 2019 digital-only prescriptions were introduced across England. Patients may choose to have a paper prescription if they do not want to specify a pharmacy.
NHS Scotland implements a similar scheme, under the name Acute Medication Service.