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Enabling EPS for your service

The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is currently available within primary, secondary and community care settings in England where an EPS approved prescribing system is in use, and FP10 prescriptions are issued for dispensing by community pharmacies or appliance contractors.

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SCAL notice for suppliers

Please refer to the Supplier Conformance Assessment List (SCAL) as the definitive source of supplier information and guidance for EPS development. You will receive the SCAL when you begin the EPS onboarding process.

The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is currently available within primary, secondary and community care settings in England. 

Services that would like to enable EPS must ensure they fall into one of the approved care settings, issuing FP10 prescriptions (not FP10HP prescriptions) for dispensing by community, and have an approved prescribing system in place.

This information would need to be captured on an EPS Use Case Form and approved by NHS England.

Examples of primary, secondary and community care settings that can use EPS include:

  • GP practices
  • child health services
  • community physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, speech and language
  • community paediatric clinics, palliative care, mental health services
  • district nursing, intermediate care
  • specialist nursing services (for example, diabetes, heart failure, incontinence, tissue viability)
  • sexual health services
  • urgent treatment centres, clinical assessment services
  • extended access hubs, GP out of hours
  • acute hospital trusts
  • community hospital trusts
  • mental health trusts

EPS approved prescribing systems

If you are developing a new integration, you must use the Electronic Prescription Service - FHIR API.

These systems are approved for prescribing via EPS.

  • TPP - SystmOne
  • Emis - Emis Web
  • Microtest – Evolution (general practice only)
  • Vision – Vision (general practice only)
  • OneAdvanced – Adastra (urgent care only)
  • Cleo systems - Cleo (urgent care only)
  • Cleo systems - Solo (secondary care only)
  • Cleric – Respond 2 (urgent care only)

Where EPS is not currently approved for use

EPS is not currently approved for use in the following settings, even if one of the above prescribing systems is used. 

  • Independent prescribing in community pharmacy (pathfinder programme underway)
  • Homecare (pilot underway)
  • Dentistry
  • Optometry
  • Use of private prescriptions
  • Use of instalment dispensing (FP10MDA)

How to enable EPS for your service

Services that wish to enable EPS must ensure they fall within the scope as set out above, and follow the relevant guidance pages below. 

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Switching on EPS - GP practices

GP practices wishing to go live with EPS should contact their local commissioner's EPS lead in the first instance as the process is now managed locally.
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Electronic Prescription Service for secondary care

Learn about the benefits of implementing the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in secondary care plus guidance for NHS trusts preparing to implement EPS.
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Electronic Prescription Service in integrated urgent care

Guidance for urgent care settings using Adastra, IC24, or Cleric. EPS allows prescribers in integrated urgent care settings to send electronic prescriptions to community pharmacies, removing the need for paper prescriptions.

Last edited: 3 June 2024 9:42 am