In the fast-paced environment of UK GP practices, handling repeat prescription requests is often laborious and time-consuming.

With surgeries processing between 200-300 repeat prescriptions per day—amounting to a staggering 93,600 annually—efficiency in this area is essential to ensuring patient safety, reducing workloads, and enabling staff to focus on more complex tasks.

Enter MyBotGP, an innovative tool designed to automate repeat prescriptions for GP practices integrated with EMIS, one of the UK’s leading clinical systems. This automated solution enforces compliance with practice rules and unlocks valuable time savings while improving patient care.

Freeing Up Valuable Time

Manual processing of repeat prescriptions demands significant time from GPs, administrative staff, and pharmacy teams. On average, a GP spends 5-10 minutes per prescription, the pharmacy team dedicates 5-15 minutes, and the admin team allocates 3-5 minutes per request. This leads to considerable time spent across multiple teams each day.

With MyBotGP’s automation, GPs can reduce their prescription processing time to just 2-5 minutes. This allows staff to dedicate more time to critical clinical tasks and complex cases, ultimately improving patient care.

Enforcing Rules for Safer Prescriptions

MyBotGP offers a unique advantage in rule enforcement. Practices can configure the system to follow specific rules around the prescription review and issue dates, ensuring prescriptions are processed within safe parameters. For example, prescriptions can be set to process only within the designated review dates or a specified number of days before the next issue date.

Additionally, MyBotGP allows practices to blacklist certain drugs or restrict controlled drugs from being processed automatically. This robust rule enforcement helps practices comply with safety regulations, ensuring prescriptions are handled in line with clinical governance.

Supporting Outstanding Patient Care

The ultimate goal of any healthcare innovation is to improve patient outcomes, and MyBotGP is no exception. By streamlining repeat prescription processing, practices can reduce patient waiting times, ensuring medication is available faster and more reliably.

The tool also features real-time analytics and reporting, providing practices with valuable insights into prescription trends and patient needs. This enables GPs to offer more personalised care and respond more proactively to patient health concerns.

Why MyBotGP Stands Out:

• Seamless Integration with EMIS: MyBotGP integrates effortlessly with the EMIS system, processing repeat prescriptions directly within the platform.
• NHS-Compliant Technology: Certified with DPIA, DTAC, and DCB 0129, MyBotGP uses secure technology trusted by the NHS.
• Flexible and Scalable: Whether for individual practices or larger Primary Care Networks (PCNs), MyBotGP can be customised to meet specific practice needs.

Conclusion

By embracing automation through MyBotGP, UK GP practices can save time, enforce critical safety rules, and, most importantly, enhance patient care. Automation allows healthcare professionals to focus on complex cases and patient-centred care, offering a practical solution in a system where time and resources are often stretched thin.