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Published 12 October 2023 Summary Community pharmacies and appliance contractors are responsible for dispensing medications, appliances, and medical devices to NHS patients. They are not a direct part of the NHS but provide essential services on…

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) provides NHS stakeholders with prescribing volume, trend and cost analyses derived from our systems used to calculate and make payment to dispensing contractors. We provide this information through two…

Our second round of employer events is now well underway having visited Birmingham, Leeds, Brighton and Exeter. We have put together this round of events based on feedback previously received and we are delighted to continue to receive positive…

Our level of performance continues to be maintained as we strive to process first pension payments in a timely manner. A total of 3236 applications have been processed so far in April 2019 of which 96.48% were paid on time and of those 82.62% lump…

Junk mail Check your outlook settings to make sure you can receive correspondence from NHS Pensions, as some correspondence maybe stopped by your Firewall or go into your junk (spam) folder. add @nhs.net e-mail addresses to your saved sender list…

Last month we advised that from 1 August 2020, NHS Pensions will no longer deal with comments submitted through POL error handling.  Where you can provide relevant information for resolving an error, you should now email nhsbsa.nwdatamanagement@nhs…

At the start of the COVID 19 outbreak we took a number of steps to support employers who were encountering issues due to the lockdown restrictions. This included agreeing to accept certain applications forms in PDF/Word format via email, instead of…

If you’re a General Ophthalmic Services contractor operating in England, you must submit your annual GOS complaints return before 11:59pm on Friday 3 September.  Under General Ophthalmic Services Regulations 2008, you’re required to submit an…

The UK government’s Coronavirus action plan, published on 3 March 2020, set out measures to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. This included increasing the available health and social care workforce by removing barriers to allow recently retired NHS…

When someone applies to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), they give us consent to request medical records from the healthcare providers listed on their claim form. Under data protection law and the Access to Health Records Act 1990, an…