Outpatient Connects

Outpatient prescribing, done properly

A purpose-built platform for NHS outpatient medicines: prescribe from a wide dm+d formulary, sign once at the point of prescribing, and send each medicine down its most cost-effective supply route - the patient's community pharmacy over national NHS EPS, or the hospital's own pharmacy - with a pharmacist clinical check built in.

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Why Outpatient Connects?

Everything a trust needs to prescribe, check and route outpatient medicines electronically

Sign once, at prescribing

The prescriber signs at the point of prescribing with an advanced electronic signature; the content is SHA-256 locked, so it's tamper-evident from the moment it's created. No separate signing step.

National NHS EPS routing

Community-routed prescriptions transmit to the patient's nominated pharmacy over the national Electronic Prescription Service - built on the same CIS2 / PDS / FHIR foundations as HomeCare Connects.

Cost-effective supply routing

A pricing engine compares the real cost of each supply route - national Drug Tariff for the community, the trust's own contract prices for the hospital pharmacy - and recommends the cheapest, showing the pounds saved on every prescription.

Generic-first, wider formulary

Prescribe generically from a wide dm+d-backed formulary (substance → strength → form), with brand an optional pick. Each site chooses its formulary mode: its own curated list, the full dm+d catalogue, or a hybrid.

Pharmacist clinical check

A pharmacist reviews the prescription and passes-and-sends in one action, or sends it back to the prescriber with a query. The prescriber can amend and re-sign in place - a clean, closed loop with no paper.

Safety flags where they matter

Allergy checks, dose-range guards, an off-formulary-dose alert that forces a clinical check, and a clear "unlicensed medicine" badge at both prescribing and checking - the right warning in front of the right person.

Titration & dose escalation

Structured dose-escalation schedules for drugs that titrate - each step's dose, frequency and duration held against the drug, so an escalating regimen is prescribed faithfully rather than as free text.

Repeat medicines

A patient repeat-medicines list with a specialty-scoped worklist that shows what's due - overdue and soonest first - and re-issues a fresh, signed prescription in a click.

Prescribe by diagnosis

Curated order sets tied to a diagnosis drop a whole bundle of pre-configured drug lines into the prescription, editable before signing - faster, more consistent prescribing for common presentations.

NHS identity & demographics

Prescriber identity and MFA via NHS CIS2; patient demographics and registered GP verified from PDS. The people and the patient are who the record says they are.

Multi-specialty, per-consultant

Prescribing organisation ODS per specialty, per-specialty days-supply defaults, and specialty-scoped repeats and workflow filters - each clinic sees and manages its own patients.

Hospital dispensing workflow

Medicines routed to the hospital's own pharmacy land in a dispensing worklist, so non-EPS supply is tracked to completion alongside the community prescriptions - one view of the whole outpatient supply picture.

How a prescription flows

  1. Prescribe from the formulary (generic-first), with dose, quantity or days, and the cheapest supply route suggested automatically.
  2. Sign once - the prescription is AES-signed and locked at the click.
  3. Clinical check - a pharmacist reviews and passes it, or sends it back for amendment.
  4. Route & supply - community items transmit over NHS EPS to the nominated pharmacy; hospital items drop into the dispensing worklist.

See Outpatient Connects for your Trust

Part of the Auxtechna platform, alongside HomeCare Connects. Get in touch and we'll arrange a demonstration.

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