How CLEO EPS is Transforming Community Prescribing
Electronic prescribing is no longer a future ambition – it’s here and it’s changing the way clinicians work across the NHS. As trusts and community pharmacies seek to cut the burden of admin, improve safety and deliver faster patient care, CLEO EPS is emerging as a game-changer.
This accredited, instant electronic prescribing solution from CLEO Systems removes the need for paper FP10s, enables seamless prescription transfer to community pharmacies and gives clinicians a workflow that’s faster, safer and greener.
A real-world success story: Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (HIOW) offers a compelling example of what’s possible. CLEO EPS has been deployed across 67 of its community teams, including:
- Urgent Treatment Centre
- Older People’s Mental Health
- CAMHS
- Perinatal Services
- Specialist Palliative Care
- Frailty and Eating Disorders
Today, around 300 prescribers – 88% of the HIOW workforce – are using CLEO EPS and the trust has already issued over 19,500 electronic prescriptions, that’s rapid adoption at scale.
Why it matters
Community clinicians often work across multiple sites, travelling between clinics, homes and urgent care settings. Paper-based prescribing created delays, risks and unnecessary journeys, none of which align with modern and responsive care.
By eliminating FP10s, CLEO EPS has:
- Reduced admin overhead
- Prevented lost or illegible prescriptions
- Accelerated medication access for patients
For services like mental health, frailty and perinatal care, this reliability is critical – improving both outcomes and patient experience.
The benefits in numbers
HIOW’s rollout highlights the tangible gains CLEO EPS delivers:
- Clinical Safety: No handwritten errors, no lost FP10s, no delays.
- Efficiency: Prescriptions sent in seconds, saving up to seven minutes per patient, time reinvested in care.
- Flexibility: Mobile teams can prescribe anytime, anywhere – no printers, no office dependency.
- Patient Experience: No more trips to collect paper scripts; medication goes straight to the chosen pharmacy.
- Governance: Built on FHIR standards for full auditability and traceability.
- Sustainability: Less paper, fewer clinician journeys, greener healthcare.
Feedback from prescribers says it all:
“A million times quicker and easier than paper prescriptions. No lost prescriptions, no lost paper trail.”
“It’s a game changer! It has freed up my time and that’s priceless.”
A blueprint for the future
Electronic prescribing isn’t just a tech upgrade. it’s a critical milestone in NHS digital transformation. CLEO EPS proves that when solutions are intuitive, clinically aligned and scalable, adoption can be swift and impactful.
For HIOW, the results are clear: less paperwork, more patient care, and a prescribing process that matches the speed and complexity of modern healthcare. This is connected care in action, laying the foundations for tomorrow’s NHS.
CLEO EPS is not just transforming prescribing - it's simplifying conncted care.
