ScriptSwitch^® works at the point at which a drug is prescribed within your GP system and automatically displays a recommendation, if your tailored database finds a match. ScriptSwitch not only delivers recommendations for existing patient medications, it also supports decision making when initiating new treatments during a patient consultation.

The prescriber can then review the information within the window and choose an action – ‘Accept’, ‘Edit Original’ or ‘Prescribe Original’, therefore still ensuring the prescriber is in control of the clinical decision. Once selected your GP system automatically updates the details.

ScriptSwitch^® supports your QIPP objectives in the following ways:

• Quality
  
  
  • Better Care, Better Value
    Reduce variations in prescribing and deliver increased savings for Statins, PPIs and Renin Angiotensin System Drugs via ScriptSwitch recommendations.
  • National and Local Guidance
    Support local initiatives, formulary advice and local delivery of National Guidance, e.g. NICE guidance to all your prescribers quickly and easily.
• Innovation
  
  
  • Real-time prescribing data
    View reports on how clinicians interact with ScriptSwitch, use this to shape your profile, optimise its performance and identify further opportunities to release savings.
  • Sharing best practice
    ScriptSwitch is a cost-effective way of reaching all your prescribers and engaging with them on a daily basis.
• Productivity
  
  
  • Invest to save
    ScriptSwitch delivers a significant return on investment – currently saving the NHS over £29 million per year.
  • Reduce medication wastage
    Include dosage optimisation and messages targeting suitable medication quantities, frequency of supply and suitability for repeat prescribing within your profile to reduce medication wastage.
• Prevention
  
  
  • Safer use of medicines
    For example, information messages on NSAIDs remind prescribers to review individual patients to minimise the risk of gastro-intestinal, renal and cardiovascular adverse effects as per MHRA guidance.
  • Specialist drugs
    Tailor your profile to highlight specialist drugs that are only to be used in secondary care or under shared care agreements.

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