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Increased use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) offers benefits for patients, GP practices and pharmacies. As part of our work to help realise these benefits for the NHS, we recently wrote to GP practices across the country to highlight…

NHSBSA Information Services is undergoing a major technology overhaul.  Our legacy mainframe system, which feeds a number of reports currently reported through Information Services Portal (ISP) will be decommissioned by January 2019. This means…

Pharmacy contractors will be able to obtain the following Covid-19 antivirals at no cost from Alliance Healthcare (further information will be available from Alliance Healthcare Distribution in due course).  Drug Pack size…

This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. On Monday 6 November 2023 the ‘Lateral Flow Device Tests Supply Service’ will be launched, enabling the supply of Covid-19 Lateral Flow Devices from the pharmacy to…

Priadel 200mg/400mg modified release tablets The Department of Health and Social Care has retrospectively determined that prescriptions for Priadel 200mg modified-release tablets will be reimbursed at the price of £7.50 and Priadel 400mg modified-…

This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has approved an extension to an existing temporary measure in England to help limit the transmission of…

This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The 2022 Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS) is one of the elements agreed as part of the agreement on Year 3 (2021 to 2022) of the Community Pharmacy Contractual…

To help make payment information more transparent, registered pharmacy and appliance contractors can now access payment information via the Information Services Portal (ISP).   This includes the FP34 Schedule of Payments and a detailed…

GPs who want to make a claim for certain high-volume personally administered vaccines, must make them on an FP34 appendix form, (according to paragraph 16.16 of the Statement of Financial Entitlements). The high-volume personally administered…

Unidentified prescribing occurs when the costs from a prescription cannot be matched to a prescriber at that practice or organisation. If we cannot match a prescriber to a practice, we will attribute prescribing costs to the lead prescriber at that…