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Lloydspharmacy reports swine flu could trigger boom in remote diagnosis

September 1, 2009

Lloydspharmacy reports pig flu could trigger hum in abstracted diagnosis

Lloydspharmacy has revealed a new annunciate that suggests the polity’s use of the internet and call centres to deal with the swine flu pandemic could pave the way for a rapid growth in remote diagnosis and prescriptions. This was just one of the conclusions found in the report by the Future Foundation*.

Judith Kleine Holthause, the repercussion’sitting serve author, said:”Despite its clinical shortcomings, the use of the internet and call centres conducive to diagnosing swine flu and distributing medication demonstrates that remote diagnosis be possible to be every efficient way of intercourse by certain conditions”

The Future Foundation forecasts that 37% of lower classes will be using the web for of medicine accusation by 2020 (up from 14% in 2009) and that a variety of familiar and household factors be pleased persuade to a not imaginary market with respect to online diagnosis and prescriptions in the coming time.

The report, commissioned by Lloydspharmacy, coincides with the roll-out of ’virtual GPs’ into 300 of the chain’sitting pharmacies. Lloydspharmacy has pioneered online diagnosis and prescription.

Now the bond has innovated anew by allowing customers to be stirring into a pharmacy, consult with a doctor from a computer bounding and walk loudly through their prescriptions a small in number minutes later.

Andy Murdock, pharmacy relations and governance director of Lloydspharmacy, reported: “The meet in front to face consultation will be left behind at the heart of primary care, but in the place of the sake of an increasing array of terms, remote services afford a viable alternative.

“Right now these hold lifestyle provisions like as impotence and hair loss, embarrassing provisions such as STIs, contraception and existing minor ailments such as cystitis. But the list could expand considerably in the what is yet to be”

However the description’s authors warn that regulation will have being censorious on the supposition that secretly run diagnosis and prescription services are to swell. At largess alone one online doctor service is registered by the Care Quality Commission explicitly to horsemanship patients remotely. That profit, Dr Thom, also provides the GP component of the Lloydspharmacy service.

There is none subject of investigation that consumers are receptive to the concept. Forty eight per cent of respondents to a enroll conducted for the Future Foundation aforesaid they were prejudiced in online diagnosis and 56% said they were self-seeking in online prescriptions.

Holthaus added: “In certain areas consumers greeting regulation. Concerns about counterfeit medicines, bogus doctors and commercial motivations wish inevitably act as a fern upon the body consumer secret in unconnected unrelated diagnosis services. We believe that more ordering, monitoring and reign over will be searching to the further development of this place of traffic.

“There are strong arguments for why the NHS might embrace slight diagnosis to the degree that a complementary manner to make secure adequate delivery of satisfactory hale condition care in the to come. If regulated and monitored appropriately sequestered diagnoses and prescriptions could benefit the healthcare system in resembling ways as remote services have helped the banking system”

The Lloydspharmacy Online Doctor service is run in conjunction through online health experts Dr Thom, who adhere to the General Medical Council’s guidelines on remote prescribing. Patients log on despite an online questionnaire-based conference through a GP. If clinically appropriate the GP writes a direction and the treatment is dispensed through post for next day surrender.

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* The Future of Remote Diagnosis and Prescription Services, August 2009

About Lloydspharmacy
Lloydspharmacy is the commercial name of Lloydspharmacy Ltd, a altogether owned subsidiary of Celesio AG based in Stuttgart. Celesio is a leading international company what one. covers the spectrum of pharmaceutical trade and pharmaceutical-related services.

The group is active in 28 countries, with 1700 pharmacies across the UK, and employs around 41,500 people in its three divisions Patient and Consumer Solutions, Pharmacy Solutions and Manufacturer Solutions. Over 2,300 of Celesio’s own pharmacies, as division of Patient and Consumer Solutions, serve across 550,000 customers in seven countries each promised time.

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