Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 24
24
Accepted in Part
Commission independent review into hospital medicines management, focusing on automation and digital systems.
Recommendation
We recommend that an independent review is commissioned to explore hospital medicines management, to report within one year. The review should make recommendations, particularly around how the potential of automation and technological systems like connected medication management could be realised and how learning from Global Digital Exemplars can be built upon in Trusts across England. (Paragraph 131) Pharmacy Workforce
Government Response Summary
The government partially accepts the recommendation, committing to explore opportunities for technology use and consider the recommendation as part of developing a 10-Year Health Plan objective, rather than commissioning an independent review within one year.
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government
Accepted in Part
Partially Accept This Government inherited a system that has been neglected for too long. We are committed to exploring opportunities to make use of technology as we look to develop and support our NHS in line with the shift from analogue to digital, as part of the 10 Year Health Plan. We will therefore consider this recommendation as part of the development of this objective, and any lessons learned from the Global Digital Exemplars and how this can be applied to Trusts across England