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Supports sharing of data held within GP IT solutions across health and social care organisations.

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Introduction

The Digital Medicines initiative aims to positively transform the way that Patients manage their medicines, promote new models of care as well as improve the medicines supply chain and the provision of medicines data. At a high-level, this all involves the adoption of digital prescriptions to replace inefficient and cumbersome paper versions, utilising appropriate technologies to fully engage in the end-to-end Patient pathway, alongside supporting the adoption of technology to deliver a fully digitised medicines supply chain. 

The Digital Medicines Specification utilises the Generic FHIR Receiver and supports the following requirements as part of its MVP.

Requirements

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DMPF1

Pharmacy Immunisation Administration

A FHIR Document used to notify a Patient’s registered GP Practice on the administration of immunisations to a Patient at a Pharmacy.

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DMPF2

Pharmacy Emergency Medication Supply 

A FHIR Document used to notify a Patient’s registered GP Practice of emergency medication(s) supplied to a Patient at a Pharmacy.

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Compliance, Assurance and Testing

Summary of Recommendations

The understanding that clinical risk and assurance responsibilities are formally acknowledged by system System Suppliers and based on the knowledge that appropriate functional assurance will be performed by the Solutions Assurance team which is crucial to mitigating many of the clinical risks identified, the following clinical assurance approach is recommended:

  1. Clinical Safety - All

system
  1. System Suppliers will be required to submit the required clinical safety documentation and sign off by their Clinical Safety Officer as per the Authority Clinical Safety Group (CSG) requirements.

  1. Test in Test - A Digital Medicines clinician will, in the test environment via Webex, witness test the following scenarios to ensure the

systems
  1. Systems are behaving as expected from a clinical perspective. The scenarios covered will be:

a.
    1. The end to end process including the recording of a Patient consultation for a flu vaccination, where a vaccination has been administered and the subsequent transfer of that information to a GP Practice where it is acted upon.

b.
    1. The end to end process including the recording of a NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service (NUMSAS) consultation for a Patient where a supply is made, the subsequent transfer of that information to a GP Practice where it is acted upon.

  1. Test in Live

  1. - Using test Patients, a Digital Medicines clinician will, in the live environment via Webex or in person, witness test the following scenarios to ensure the

systems
  1. Systems are behaving as expected from a clinical perspective. The scenarios covered will be:

a.
    1. The end to end process including the recording of a Patient consultation for a flu vaccination, where a vaccination has been administered and the subsequent transfer of that information to a GP Practice where it is acted upon.

b.
    1. The end to end process including the recording of a NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service (NUMSAS) consultation for a Patient where a supply is made, the subsequent transfer of that information to a GP Practice where it is acted upon.

The focus of the witness testing will be on the user workflow ensuring the positive and negative messages are prominent to the user and to provide a “sense check” of the PDF transformation of the message received by the GP systemSystem.

Documentation

  • The latest version of Digital Medicines specifications can be accessed here: 

https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/digital-medicine-fhir  (Reference links: https://developer.nhs.uk/apis/ standard
  • Standard is now published and details the information that should be recorded for vaccinations administered and emergency medicines supplied by

community pharmacists
  • Community Pharmacists.

  • The MVP states that Suppliers are expected to process the unstructured messages upon entry to the framework in order to compliantly implement any use cases. However, there will be a future requirement for Suppliers to further enhance their Solutions to ensure the messages are processed in a structured format.

Dependencies

Creating a compliant implementation requires implementing the following dependent interface standardsStandards:

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Roadmap

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