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ScriptSwitch Prescribing Decision Support national subscription

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Buyer
NHS National Services Scotland
Supplier(s)
Optum Health Solutions (UK) Ltd
Value
£3,421,896
Topic
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published
10 May 2024
Source
uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

ScriptSwitch is a medicines decision support system integrated with GP clinical systems. Embedded within the prescribing workflow and integrated with the patient record, it aims to provide actionable information and guidance to reduce risk, improve outcomes and reduce prescribing costs. This is a national contract by NSS for the software on behalf of the 14 regional NHS Boards. The software services a patient list size of ~5.8m patients and delivered over 7m GBP of prescribing savings in 2023-24. Lot 1: This is a direct award of a two year contract, with an optional extension of one year, to provide a continuation of this service which has been provided as a national agreement since 2018. Currently no other software solution can provide this service integrated to any of the GP IT Clinical Systems in use in Scotland.

Timeline

  1. Award date1 April 2024
  2. Award published10 May 2024
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About the buyer

NHS National Services Scotland is a national healthcare body serving NHS Scotland, and its National Procurement arm is Scotland's largest procurement organisation. Suppliers apply for those tenders to get onto a national framework. The National Distribution Service then delivers stock to hospital wards and community centres across NHS Scotland.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS National Services Scotland's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and transport equipment.

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