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NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service
The NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service (also known as the NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service) started on 1 October 2021.
Important Update for Contractors
The expanded…
Changes to sorting requirements and new FP34C forms
The following is an announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC):
The increased uptake of electronic prescriptions has resulted in a significant reduction of paper prescription submissions. Approximately 5% of the prescriptions…
DHSC PPE Portal: user research
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) would like to invite you to take part in user research for a new platform that will replace the current PPE Portal.
DHSC…
Reimbursement price changes for October - November 2024
This article has been published on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
DHSC has confirmed that the reimbursement prices for the following products have been redetermined, in the months as set out in the table, to reflect an…
Shortened MYS claims process for NHS Discharge Medicines Service coming soon
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England (NHSE) are introducing a streamlined process for Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) claims within the NHS Business Services Authority's (NHSBSA) Manage Your Service (MYS) portal.
The…
GP and Pharmacy support: open days, webinars and newsletters
We hold regular webinars and open days for prescribing and dispensing contractors on topics ranging from endorsing and referred backs to batch submissions and switching.
Online sessions last approximately 60 minutes.
In-person open days take…
NHS Community Pharmacy New Medicine Service (NMS) Expansion Pilot: Inclusion of Depression as a Therapeutic Area and Revised Service Delivery Model
This pilot will run from August 2022 until 31 March 2024, or before, if sufficient data has been collected to evaluate the service and commission nationally. Contractors will be notified of the end of the pilot with one month's notice of final…
Re-categorisation of Nutritional Borderline Substance (NBS) products – development and maintenance process
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has worked closely with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to improve the categorisation of NBS products. It is part of a system-wide move towards interoperability.
The work has been…
Drug reimbursement price changes
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that the reimbursement prices for the following products has been redetermined, in the months as set out in the table, to reflect an increase in the NHS list price:
Product…
Data download, NHSBSA Open Data Portal and One Drug Database (ODD) update 19 February 2020
The NHS currently releases detailed information on prescribing of medications via two datasets, both of which are sourced from NHSBSA data:
•Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI), released by NHS Business Services Authority via the ISP portal.
•…