Effective Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) can save up to 46 minutes a day of GP time, and if 80% of all repeats were issued as repeat dispensing, 2.7 million GP hours could be saved.

As part of the GP contract, practices in England may now transfer any clinically suitable patient onto eRD if they are already receiving, or have agreed to receive, electronic prescriptions. You can find more information on the NHS England and NHS Improvement website.

Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD): an overview

The Wessex AHSN has several resources for clinicians and community pharmacies, examples include webinars, patient suitability guides and waiting room slides.

Information and resources for patients can be found on the patient facing part of this site. Dorset’s own pharmacist Kay Green speaks on a podcast discussing how her team set up eRD prescriptions in their practice.

The NHSBSA EPS and eRD utilisation dashboards provide information on the electronic prescription service and electronic repeat dispensing. You can access EPS Utilisation prescribing data using the EPS prescribing data dashboard. There is a step by step guide on using the dashboard.