Medicines Interoperability Readiness Dashboard

Medicines interoperability enables information about a patient's medicines, allergies and intolerances to flow seamlessly across IT systems in all health and care services. 

This will improve safety and efficiency, allowing staff to focus on care and providing patients with a better experience. 

Health and care organisations can now access information on how NHS trusts across England are progressing with transforming their systems to support medicines interoperability. 

The information contained in the dashboard is self-reported by trusts in England as part of an ongoing survey carried out since June 2022.

Information on each trust includes: 

• who supplies their primary electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) system 
• who supplies their pharmacy stock control system 
• their progress in adopting electronic prescribing  
• their progress in adopting the NHS dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) 
• their progress in developing medicines interoperability functions between different internal and external systems (split by key activities)

Colleagues can use the dashboard to identify other trusts to contact for advice and guidance and to share their experiences of system procurements, implementations and optimisations.

If you are a trust who has not submitted its data but are now ready to do so, or to update current information for your trust, please complete the Medicines Interoperability Survey [Response time: approximately 10 minutes]. 

If you have any queries around the dashboard or survey, contact us at [email protected].