Hospital pharmacists can now call on a unique new web-based tool, PharmacyView, to help them provide a more responsive, effective and precise service to patients.
PharmacyView has been developed by Nugensis with a particular interest in health and social care, in partnership with NHS hospital pharmacists. It’s already in use across five NHS Boards in Scotland – Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Borders, Tayside and Fife.
Nugensis believes that PharmacyView is just as relevant to hospitals in the rest of the UK and is currently in the final stages of discussions with several hospital trusts in England.
Accessible via desktops, laptops and Wi-Fi-enabled handheld mobile devices, the tool enables pharmacists to identify and prioritise pharmaceutical care from anywhere and, in particular, while on the ward. At a glance, they can see every patient’s name, age and admittance details, their location within the hospital and their pharmaceutical triage status.
The system indicates whether referral to a pharmacist is required (or in progress or completed), the patient’s triage category and review date, and provides updates on discharge and whether an immediate discharge letter and prescription is required.
As well as eliminating paperwork and reducing the amount of time pharmacists spend on administration, PharmacyView facilitates handovers, makes it easier to identify the location of priority patients, and expedites workload planning. Builtin alerts notify users if key tasks, such as medicines reconciliation, have not been completed on time. Patients can also be more easily tracked as they move around a hospital site.
‘PharmacyView is a real-time clinical workflow tool that gives pharmacists more control over their workloads since they can more easily decide which patients they should see first based on need rather than location in the hospital,’ said Stewart McQuillian, Operations Director at Nugensis.
