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Unidentified Nurse Prescribing
We receive a substantial number of Practice Nurse (PN) prescriptions for prescribers who have not been registered with NHS Prescription Services at the practice specified on the prescriptions they're issuing. This has resulted in a high volume of…
Drug Tariff News Part VIC National Influenza Adult Vaccination Service Advanced Service - Community Pharmacy
The Department of Health and NHS England have published Directions providing the legal basis for the Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service:
The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services) (Amended) Directions 2016…
New Medicines Optimisation Dashboard released
The November 2016 Dashboard is now available and can be accessed at:
http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/PrescriptionServices/5891.aspx
It has been relaunched via a new platform based on NHS RightCare’s InstantAtlas and now includes:
• Time series…
July 2018 - Medicines Optimisation Dashboard Available
July 2018 Medicines Optimisation Dashboard is now available.
Medicines Optimisation is about improving patient outcomes, quality and value from medicines use, guided by the principles of medicines optimisation. This dashboard brings together a…
Premium-priced generics
There’s an increasing volume of computerised prescriptions each month where the prescriber has prescribed a generic Drug Tariff Part VIIIA product but also with the name of the branded product or the supplier/ manufacturer added in brackets.
In…
BNF Code Changes January 2021
The annual BNF version changes are due to be implemented with January 2021 dispensing data, planned publication of this data is around mid-March 2021.
The latest published mapping file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2020 data…
BNF version changes January 2025
The annual BNF version changes are due to be implemented with January 2025 dispensing data. Planned publication of this data is around mid-March 2025.
The latest published mapping file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2024 data…
Medicines optimisation - generic prescribing
In England, 81% of all drugs in primary care are already prescribed generically, generating significant savings for the NHS.
Building on what’s been achieved with generic prescribing in recent years, we have developed a dashboard providing rapid…
Prescribing monitoring document (PMD)
Access to PMD for:
registered users is through ePACT2
public users is through Catalyst - for national PMD report
PMD provides monthly financial information about prescribing costs against budgets. This allows the drugs element of unified…
BNF Code Changes- January 2023
The annual version changes relating to the BNF Structure have been implemented with January 2023 dispensing data.
The latest file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2022 data against the BNF presentation code as of January 2023 data,…