ScriptSwitch Limited, now part of UnitedHealth UK, is a software company that develops and supplies a realtime decision support tool to GP surgeries in the United Kingdom. Its primary product, ScriptSwitch, is sold predominantly to NHS Primary Care Organisations who use it to provide GPs with locally authored information and advice at the point of prescribing which can contain patient safety messages, drug switch recommendations and other information. As of April 2010, it is in use in more than 4,400GP practices across 116 NHS Primary Care Organisations which covers 27 million patients and is reported to save the NHS more than £20million per anum.
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