{"id":314813,"date":"2017-06-28T02:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/troops-wrongly-prescribed-damaging-drugs-before-deployment-due-to-failures-in-it-system-senior-doctor-warns\/"},"modified":"2017-06-28T02:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T01:10:52","slug":"troops-wrongly-prescribed-damaging-drugs-before-deployment-due-to-failures-in-it-system-senior-doctor-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/troops-wrongly-prescribed-damaging-drugs-before-deployment-due-to-failures-in-it-system-senior-doctor-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops Wrongly Prescribed Damaging Drugs Before Deployment due to Failures in IT System, Senior Doctor Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Troops preparing to deploy overseas are being wrongly prescribed damaging anti-malarial drugs due to failures in the Ministry of Defence\u2019s medical IT system, senior army doctors have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Medics are frequently unable to access soldiers\u2019 patient histories and end up handing out inappropriate drugs such as lariam, or prescribing medicines meant for other patients, according to the former head of Britain\u2019s main military hospital in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Glynn Evans said yesterday the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) made it impossible to provide safe and timely treatment to armed forces members and their families.<\/p>\n<p>He warned the slow pace of the software means military doctors are unable to follow the strict criteria for choosing certain drugs in the rushed hours before a deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The Army apologised last year for ignoring precautions for prescribing lariam in the case of thousands of troops.<\/p>\n<p>The drug has been shown to cause depression, suicidal thoughts and psychosis.<\/p>\n<p>The British Medical Association yesterday called on the MoD to urgently improve the system to prevent its \u201cfrequent software crashes or total loss of IT\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of the body\u2019s Armed Forces Committee and an NHS anaesthetist, Colonel Evans said: \u201cWe\u2019re having to treat real patients in real time and the system\u00a0cannot keep up with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven to print a prescription \u2013 it has to go such a convoluted route that it can take 30 minutes to come out, maybe from a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/troops-wrongly-prescribed-damaging-drugs-before-deployment-due-to-failures-in-it-system-senior-doctor-warns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops preparing to deploy overseas are being wrongly prescribed damaging anti-malarial drugs due to failures in the Ministry of Defence\u2019s medical IT system, senior army doctors have warned. Medics are frequently unable to access soldiers\u2019 patient histories and end up handing out inappropriate drugs such as lariam, or prescribing medicines meant for other patients, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}