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Are you ready
Are you ready

for the Electronic
for the Electronic

Prescription
Prescription
Service (EPS)
Service (EPS)

launch in wales?
launch in wales?

The launch of the Electronic Prescription Now, it’s time to ensure your pharmacy is
Service (EPS) in Wales is just around the ready for the final steps.
corner. This transformation marks a shift Your roadmap to EPS readiness
from paper prescriptions to a fully digital
process, enhancing convenience and safety We’ve designed this guide as a roadmap to
for patients and pharmacies alike. keep things simple and actionable. Follow the

Over recent months, we’ve shared tips to steps below, and use the QR codes to access
essential resources directly.
help you prepare, from patient nominations
to equipping your teams with the right tools.
Patient Nomination quick guide

Ensure the Patient Nomination Screen is open on the
computer used for labelling walk-in prescriptions.

Enter the patient details in the patient search screen.

Is the patients NHS number listed. If no NHS Number is shown, then the
patient is NOT already nominated.

Patient is NOT currently nominated to the pharmacy. Check patient is nominated on the nomination screen.

Add an ‘EPS’ Nomination identifier to the prescription Continue with labelling
bag. the prescription

Verbal consent to be added to the patient’s record on
the PMR.

Mark EPS on the top of the prescription.

When the marked prescription is handed out ask Patient MUST be given
the patient. ‘Can we set you nomination for future sufficient information about
prescriptions’. EPS when gaining consent.

Return prescription form to dispensary for nomination Explain benefits of nomination to the patient and re-
to be set immediatly. confirm if they would like their nomination set.

Return the prescription Thank the patient.
form to the dispensary for Cross ‘EPS’ off the top of
the nomination to be set the prescription form.
immediately.
Verbal consent to be Mark “Nomination
added to the patient’s declined” on patients PMR
record on the PMR. record.

File the prescription in the counting ‘box’ for issuing.

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