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6th May 2008
UK's leading pharmacutical
wholesaler uses Cobent to help pharmacies improve prescription services
to patients
Launches UK's first EPS
application e-learning solution
AAH Pharmaceuticals, the UK's
leading pharmaceutical wholesaler, is making it easier and quicker for
pharmacists to use their electronic Minor Ailment Scheme system in
Scottish Pharmacies and improve services to patients.
AAH is using the Cobent Learning Compliance Suite (LCS) to develop and
deploy simple-to-use e-learning courses that are on hand 24/7 to
pharmacists using LINKEvolution, AAH's prescription management
software. It will be the first e-learning solution for a prescription
management application in the UK.
Cobent LCS will help pharmacists learn how to use LINKEvolution faster
and provide them with an easy-to-access resource for future learning
and reference. Because users can increase their knowledge of the LINK
system and its functionality, Cobent LCS is expected to reduce the
number of support calls AAH receives from customers.
Cobent LCS will also enable AAH to provide all Scottish customers, even
in remote locations, with a consistent and high level of training and
ensure training and information of LINKEvolution upgrades is delivered
to customers quickly.
Leon Rudd, AAH Marketing Director, said: "For AAH's Customer Technology
Team, the Cobent LCS is crucial because it means we can offer a much
better service to our customers, we can get them trained quickly and,
with the roll out of National Programmes for IT throughout the UK for
primary healthcare, it's key to our business. It also offers AAH real
competitive advantage to be able to offer an e-learning solution for
our EPS systems."
Rudd added: "There aren't many
organisations providing the e-learning solution that Cobent can deliver
and, importantly, Cobent provided exactly what we need without adding
features that we wouldn't really use, which makes it a very cost
effective solution. Cobent LCS is also extremely easy to use especially
for enabling us to develop our own e-learning content and as a learning
environment for our customers."
The Cobent LCS e-learning solution for LINKEvolution - one of a handful
of government accredited EPS systems - is being deployed to 280
pharmacies in Scotland soon and eventually to all of AAH's 2,400
pharmacy customers around the UK. Each pharmacy has around two to three
users including fully qualified pharmacists, pharmaceutical technicians
and counter assistants.
The AAH LINK e-learning will provide users with a range of training
modules - many that can be completed in less than ten minutes -
software simulations and personal development monitoring tools via a
web portal. Customers will also be able to use the portal as a
reference for information or for refresher training.
Cobent LCS also enables AAH to provide new information and training
modules to customers quickly every time there is a software upgrade or
new feature addition.
Howard Sears, Cobent's CEO, said: "Under the NHS National Programme for
IT, pharmacies are being encouraged to adopt EPS systems to integrate
the complete prescription life cycle to improve administering and
managing prescriptions and providing more advice to patients. By using
Cobent LCS, not only to develop e-learning content but also to deliver
that content to users in a practical and simple way, AAH has taken a
huge step forward in helping pharmacies implement and enhance the use
of EPS applications."
The Cobent Learning Compliance Suite (LCS) is a powerful set of modules
designed to make enterprise wide learning easier to manage and control.
LCS is a browser-based application that provides fully functional
learning, content and training management, offering organisations the
necessary tools to quickly and cost-effectively create, distribute and
track training activities online and offline.
LCS consists of advanced tools that have been built in line with global
compliance standards and in consultation with training managers,
compliance managers and other business professionals who deliver and
manage training daily.
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Notes for editors
Further information
Howard Sears, Cobent
Tel 0845 456 0630; Email
hsears@cobent.com
About AAH Pharmaceuticals
With 3,800 employees and 20
locations across the UK, AAH is the country's leading wholesaler of
pharmaceutical and healthcare products and services to pharmacies,
hospitals and doctors. Making over 100,000 deliveries a week and with
over 20,000 products stocked.
Cobent (
http://www.cobent.com )
Based in Oxfordshire, UK, Cobent provides solutions for e-learning,
training and compliance-led process management across the entire range
of international blue-chip companies, fast-growth start-ups, and public
sector organisations. Cobent enables its customers to achieve
regulatory compliance and learning management across the entire
organisation, empowering them to manage compliance governance quickly
and cost-effectively. Creating reports that are compliance-ready at the
outset, Cobent delivers the market's most reliable, flexible, and
compliant solution for distributing organisation-wide learning
management via the web. Cobent works with organisations in the life
sciences, government, financial services, education, retail and call
centre sectors.
Further information from:
Howard Sears, Cobent Group, +44 (0) 845 456 0630;
hsears@cobent.com
Bob Little, Bob Little Press &
PR, +44 (0)1727 860405/ + 44 (0) 7850 508201
