E-prescription services
Outdated prescription systems create bottlenecks
Managing prescriptions through outdated paper-based systems slows patient care and creates significant challenges for the NHS. Moving prescriptions from hospitals to homecare providers can take up to three days, with physical transportation across sites adding complications. In addition, paper processes are error-prone, leading to accidental duplications, missed details and last-minute prescription complications that strain hospital staff and delay treatment to patients.
Sciensus’ e-prescription services are powered by secure digital workflows that transform prescribing. Our Sciensus Connect portal enables hospitals to scan and upload prescriptions in bulk with digital signatures, creating legally valid documents that move through a streamlined review process. E-prescriptions don’t replace paper systems but make medications available to patients much quicker, reduce administrative burden, minimise errors, while providing complete transparency for NHS teams.
Faster delivery
Fewer errors
Complete visibility
Digital workflows simplify and accelerate prescription handling
With e-prescriptions, hospitals send prescriptions to a secure NHS email address where they enter a digital workflow that dramatically reduces processing time. Hospitals can work with Sciensus to customise workflows to match the variability of how processes work in different departments. HCPs can sign electronically using familiar email tools and hospital pharmacy’s provide a final review for accuracy. The portal provides full transparency of when the completed prescription arrives at Sciensus and its journey through our own rigorous dispensary process.
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Secure, compliant workflows utilising digital signatures
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Bulk upload and rapid processing
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Error reduction through automation
Simplify your prescription fulfilment process
Get in touch to learn how Sciensus e-prescriptions reduce delays, improve safety and transform care for hospitals and patients across the NHS.
How e-prescribing transforms healthcare delivery
E-prescribing is changing how prescriptions are created, shared and managed. By using digital tools developed from the ground up in collaboration with the NHS, Sciensus has been able to make a complex process simpler, transparent and more effective.
Clear benefits for patients and NHS teams
This approach has significant advantages for all stakeholders. By cutting down the time it takes for a prescription to be received – which studies have shown can be up to three days – patients can have their medication in their hands much sooner. Additionally, errors like accidental duplications or missing details are more easily avoided, cutting down on avoidable delays and making last-minute prescriptions easier to arrange.
The digital workflow reduces bottlenecks
When a hospital generates a prescription, the traditional process involved physically transporting it across the site to the pharmacy, where medication will eventually be authorised. This can be time-consuming and create bottlenecks.
However, with e-prescriptions, the hospital sends an email to a secure NHS address where it begins a journey through a digital workflow. The health professional who prescribed the medication is notified to add their electronic signature, which makes the document legally valid. After being reviewed by hospital pharmacy, the prescription is delivered to the homecare team for final checks.
Transforming care through innovation
By reducing delays and errors whilst offering increased traceability, we are already transforming care. E-prescriptions work alongside paper systems, providing flexibility for NHS teams whilst delivering faster, safer prescribing processes for hospitals and patients.
Built with NHS partnership
Efficient systems that deliver results
Trusted NHS expertise
Frequently asked questions
How does e-prescribing work?
When a hospital generates a prescription, it’s sent via email to a secure NHS address where it enters a digital workflow. The prescribing health professional adds their electronic signature to make it legally valid, then it’s reviewed by hospital pharmacy before being delivered to the homecare team for final checks – eliminating physical transportation delays.
Are e-prescriptions legally valid?
Yes, e-prescriptions become legally valid when the prescribing health professional adds their electronic signature. Our secure digital workflows ensure prescriptions are safe, compliant and meet all NHS regulatory requirements throughout the process.
Do e-prescriptions replace paper prescriptions?
No, e-prescriptions don’t replace paper systems but work alongside them to make medications available to patients quicker. The Sciensus Portal allows hospitals to scan and upload prescriptions in bulk, with scans becoming working documents whilst original paper versions are safely archived.
How much faster are e-prescriptions than paper?
Traditional paper-based prescription systems can take up to three days to move from hospitals to homecare providers. E-prescriptions dramatically reduce this processing time from days to hours, enabling patients to receive medications much sooner.
How does the Sciensus Portal support e-prescriptions?
The Sciensus Connect portal enables hospitals to scan and upload prescriptions in bulk, saving tremendous processing time. The system provides complete visibility and tracking throughout the digital workflow, with automated validation that reduces errors, duplications and missing details.
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