ScriptSwitch

ScriptSwitch Limited was a software company that developed and supplied a realtime decision support tool to GP surgeries in the United Kingdom. Its primary product, ScriptSwitch, was sold predominantly to NHS primary care organisations who used it to provide GPs with locally authored information and advice at the point of prescribing. It could contain patient safety messages, drug switch recommendations and other information. As of April 2010, it was in use in more than 4,400 GP practices across 116 NHS Primary Care Organisations, which covered 27 million patients^[1] and was reported to have saved the NHS more than £20million per annum.^[2]