Three-quarters of trusts in England that responded to a survey by The BMJ are still reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, despite progress towards electronic records and prescribing.
are still reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, despite progress towards electronic records and prescribing.convened by a House of Commons committee concluded that the UK government had failed to meet a key target to eliminate paper prescribing in hospitals and to introduce digital or electronic prescribing across the entire National Health Service by 2024.
Of the 182 trusts that responded to the questions on patient notes, 4% said that they only use paper notes, and 25% were fully electronic. The remaining 71% used both paper notes and an EPR system. Yet in a survey of 250 staff by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust after the implementation of an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system, 96% of respondents found that the electronic system saved time and 93% said that they preferred electronic prescribing over paper.
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