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Recent News
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Keep up to date on recent developments within RapidCare and the ostomy scene with our headline news service. Regularly updated, we trust this small service will prove useful to you. General News Following over 5
years of consultations, reports to and from Whitehall and countless
meetings with interested personnel, the Department of Health finally
concluded that the best way to enable their licensed dispensers to serve
the ostomy community was to reduce their income and increase their administration
load. Most companies will have little choice but to rise to the challenge at significant financial cost, but it wont be easy. The next step in the process is the introduction of a fully electronic prescription system. One key aspect of this system is that customers will not be able to request more than ONE MONTHS REQUIREMENTS at a time. As we are suspicious that many GP's will find this step a large one, we are going to try and assist them to become attuned to the process in advance. In short,
we need to ask
patients to ask their GP’s to start issuing prescriptions for no more
than one months requirements (on each form) with immediate effect. It is the
intention of the Dept. of Health to introduce this fully electronic
prescription system within the next 2 years and this will rely entirely on
GP’s automatically issuing monthly orders. Of course it will be
perfectly possible to ask us to effect less than one delivery per month
(one every quarter perhaps if that suits you). In the meantime, we all need to help
GP's and the PPA
(prescription Pricing Authority) to become attuned to a monthly ordering
system a.s.a.p. Please feel free to call if you have any questions about this change. We all have a lot to learn very quickly! |
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