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For the first time ever, the electronic prescription service (EPS) has processed one million prescriptions in a single day, Connecting for Health has announced.

A total of 500 million electronic prescriptions have been issued through the system to date, with a third of all prescriptions now sent to pharmacies via this method.

The Summary Care Record has also achieved a major milestone, having been accessed five million times by doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals, since it was launched late last year.

€When you consider that around one billion prescriptions are generated every year in England, it is a significant achievement to be able to say that over a third of all prescriptions are now processed electronically,€ said programme head for EPS, Rachel Habergham.

€The volumes continue to increase on a daily basis as we support more GPs to go live. We are fast approaching a day when it will be very rare for a prescription not to be processed by EPS.€