Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust awarded a contract to First Data Bank (FDB)UK for the provision of FDB Multilex. Multilex is FDB UK's proprietary software which provides medicines optimisation and clinical decision support for medicines management for the purposes of embedding within the Healthset Programme for Epic electronic health and care record. FDB Multilex drug knowledge base is used in all UK Epic installations and is the only drug knowledge base product available with the core functionality required by encompass. The Authority is relying on egulation 32(2)(b)(ii) as the contract can only be supplied by FBD UK as competition is absent for technical reasons.