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ScriptSwitch Prescribing

Actionable information, advice and guidance to support safe, cost-effective prescribing in primary care.

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Prescribing in primary care can be complex. Clinicians must balance safety, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness whilst keeping up with evolving guidance. 

ScriptSwitch® Prescribing – Clinical Decision Support is designed to help healthcare professionals make informed decisions at the point of prescribing. It reduces medicine waste, improves prescription safety, and supports cost-effective choices.

25 million patients covered across England, Wales and Scotland

Supporting safe, cost-effective prescribing

ScriptSwitch Prescribing displays clear, actionable advice directly within the prescribing workflow. Recommendations appear as pop-up alerts that can be accepted with a single click, ensuring minimal disruption. Accepted switches are added straight to the clinical record, improving prescription accuracy and safety. 

Medicines management teams can use ScriptSwitch Prescribing to deliver the latest guidance aligned to local and national best-evidence practice. An exclusive partnership with Keele University Centre for Medicines Optimisation provides a consistent source of new clinical updates.

ScriptSwitch Prescribing also gives medicines management teams the opportunity and flexibility to author content for adherence to local formulary, guidance and protocols. Teams benefit from the ability to adopt centrally authored content through the library.

36 care systems use our services

Key benefits

  • Improve prescription accuracy and safety with clear, actionable advice at the point of prescribing.
  • Reduce medicine waste and supports cost-effective prescribing choices.
  • Access up-to-date guidance aligned to local and national best-evidence practice.
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