Codeveloping an effective EMPA to maturity in an acute NHS Trust: an implementer report.

Introduction: University Hospitals Leicester has codeveloped, with Nervecentre, an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration System that meets specific clinical and interoperability demands of the National Health Service (NHS).

Methods: The system was developed through a frontline-led and agile approach with a project team consisting of clinicians, Information Technology (IT) specialists and the vendor's representatives over an 18-month period.

Results: The system was deployed successfully with more than a thousand transcriptions during roll-out.

On-call pharmacy services: a perspective from the Royal Alexandra Hospital (NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde) and comparison with NHS Tayside, Scotland.

Objective: To quantify the number and types of calls received by on-call pharmacists at the Royal Alexandra Hospital from January 2016 to February 2018.

Method: A retrospective analysis of the on-call log in an Excel spreadsheet was conducted. Excel was used to analyse the data recorded by on-call pharmacists during the out-of-hours period.