Matthew Power

“when one doctor ends a repeat prescription on EMIS, it remains in the 'pending' Medication Management box of the doctor to whom it was originally sent. Creating the risk, as in this case, that as a pending prescription it is actioned and issued instead of cancelled”

“EMIS system appears to group prescriptions into the amount prescribed rather than simply recording when a prescription is issued”

“to interrogate the EMIS system in order to ascertain what had actually been prescribed, issued and when, was a challenging task; it had taken 3 GPs and the in-house pharmacist to conduct the review”