GP view of NZePS as part of after hours

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Anyone on here able to answer this question posted on Healthforumnz

Do GPs have access to NZePS? It would be so useful to see what has been dispensed. And what meds patients from another practice are on when we work out of hours.

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GP access to NZePS as view of afterhours

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Conporto Health provides access to NZePS to primary and secondary clinicians in Wellington and soon further North too

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In the south island we have HealthOne.
Not related to NZePS, but you can look at what has been both prescribed and dispensed.
Really useful out of hours when sorting out others patients.

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Not a view of GPs - but this might be useful from Rommel. GP access is mixed but improving:

  • Northern and South Island GPs have access to dispensed meds from pharmacies in their region (via Test Safe and Health One). We’re talking to them about replacing the feeds with the NZePS to get the national view.
  • 3Ds (CCDHB, Hutt and Wairarapa) have access through Conporto.
  • Indici has almost completed integration
  • Medtech will be starting dev next month.
  • Intend to begin the same conversation with MyPractice, Intrahealth and Medimap shortly.

Lastly - recently started talking to DHB Portfolio Mgrs and Toniq/Rx1 about Pharmacy access.

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Hi Grahame,

I’m guessing you’re seeking a more direct answer about what can GPs see about medicines dispensed where the prescription may have come from outside of their practice?

For prescriptions from within the practice, I’ve previously been shown a view of MyPractice PMS where the GP can see dispensing histories that directly attach to previously generated prescriptions through the NZePS. To me, this is great potential to both improve the uptake and reliability of the NZePS tool and principles, and further, once reliability is high, this can be used as a tool for further patient engagement about adherence/non-adherence. In my eyes, this has to happen sequentially and it’s possible that a large part of the former issue has been dealt with substantially through the use of electronic signatures post-COVID-19. Eg. previously, a pharmacy could type a script in and not identify it with the barcode/identifier number and this would then not download the script from NZePS and hence appear like it was uncollected in the GP records. This should be happening less now, but may still be something to keep an eye out for. Once we can confidently recognise that all NZePS prescriptions are being downloaded by pharmacies (i.e. no hand-typing them in) then we should be moving to understand how NZePS can be utilised as a tool for monitoring and improving adherence.

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Hi Grahame,

Late response

HealthOne in the SI we can see all GP prescribed and all pharmacy dispensed drugs for the SI. We don’t use NZePS for this though

Cheers M