Solidsoft Reply's electronic Controlled Drugs Register - Professional solution (eCDR-Pro) digitises existing paper processes and workflows, streamlining communication between pharmacies, wards and theatres. This solution empowers NHS Trusts to efficiently audit and manage the flow of controlled drugs (CD) from placing orders to supplying and administration in dynamic hospital environments. Specifically tailored for NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations, this briefing offers invaluable insights into how eCDR-Pro streamlines and modernises CD management, leveraging robust Microsoft Azure technologies.
This innovative solution simplifies the management of controlled drugs across various aspects, unlocking a multitude of benefits, including handling illicit substances, maintaining CD disposal registers, and managing patient-owned medications. Additionally, eCDR-Pro guarantees time-savings related to inpatient and outpatient CD prescriptions, stock checking procedures and generating comprehensive compliance audit reports.
Co-designed with an NHS Trust, eCDR-Pro ensures compliance with CD legislation. This means that NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations can confidently replace traditionally paper-intensive CD registers, order books, sample signatures, inpatient and outpatient CD prescriptions, and other paper-based processes.
Headline benefits include:
- Improves accountability: eCDR-Pro offers Controlled Drugs Accountable Officers (CDAO) a legible, immutable and complete audit trail of CD activities across a Trust, providing them with assurance.
- Empowers safety measures: Medicines Safety Officers can bolster governance and adherence to standard operating procedures, identifying areas for improvement and ensuring optimal safety standards are maintained.
- Mitigates risks: eCDR-Pro reduces the overall risk of diversion and saves time on investigating discrepancies and incidents, providing a more secure and streamlined approach to CD management.
- Streamlines operations: Pharmacy and nursing staff can save valuable time and effort by using eCDR-Pro to efficiently place and manage CD orders, freeing them up to focus on critical patient care tasks.
- Leverages Microsoft technology: Built on the latest and cutting-edge Microsoft Cloud technologies, including Azure Front Door, App Services, Azure SQL, and Azure Active Directory, eCDR-Pro, provides high levels of reliability and security for healthcare organisations.
- Ensures compliance: By facilitating adherence to UK CD legislation and providing easier access to information to support Care Quality Commission (CQC) audits, eCDR-Pro significantly enhances overall compliance and regulatory readiness.
- Guarantees control: Pharmacy staff gain greater control over managing new policies, such as compliance audits and approved stock lists, providing improved visibility of stock holdings, checks, and compliance status across the Trust.
- Enhances flexibility: Nursing staff benefit from increased flexibility and security with eCDR-Pro's role-based access. This eliminates the need for sample signatures and enables efficient CD event signing and witnessing.
Briefing Content:
- Product demo: Experience the full capabilities of eCDR-Pro tailored to the needs of Chief Pharmacists, Head of Nursing, Clinical Directors, and other key stakeholders.
- Integration discussion: Explore integration possibilities with existing IT systems, including ePMA, PAS, Incident Management, and Account Management, to seamlessly incorporate eCDR-Pro into your workflow.
- Addressing challenges: Share your CD management challenges, and we will advise you on how eCDR-Pro can effectively address them, improving efficiency and compliance.
- Onboarding: Discuss options for onboarding and rolling out eCDR-Pro within your Trust, ensuring a smooth and successful implementation process.
- Resources: Gain an overview of the solution’s documentation and training materials, including User Requirement Specifications (URS), Clinical Risk Register, and solution workflows, to support your team’s requirements.
Experience the transformative power of eCDR-Pro and explore how it enables NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations to embrace digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, reduce time costs, and elevate patient care.