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Social care recruitment
We’re providing advice and support to Care England to deliver a new platform for recruitment into social care COVID-19 roles to increase the number of people applying and working in the social care sector.
Pharmacy First June 2025
This is a news article on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care
The clinical protocols and patient group directions (PGDs) for the NHS Pharmacy First service were updated in June 2025 to include some changes to the gateway criteria.…
Redundancy guidance for employers
We have updated our redundancy guidance for employers. The updated guidance is available on our retirement webpage under the ‘redundancy’ heading.
Over the counter items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care
The dashboard focuses on a list of conditions for which over the counter (OTC) items should not be routinely prescribed in primary care.
This is set out in the NHS England guidance on their website.
The list of conditions includes those that are…
Drug Tariff - Transitional Payments
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
From 1 October 2022 the monthly Transitional Payment paid to pharmacy contractors will change. The updated amounts for the dispensing payment and service payment are set…
Transitional Payments (England only) – April 2023
From 1 April 2023 the monthly Flat Fee payment to pharmacy contractors will be introduced.
The payment and conditions are set out in Drug Tariff Part VIA paragraph 5 (PDF: 63KB).
Part VIC redetermination - Flu directions
Amended Directions for the Community Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service (CPSIVAS) (2024/25) have been made and published.
The CPSIVAS Directions apply from 1 September 2024 and will be included in the Drug Tariff from October…
Completing retirement application form AW8/AW8P: Which form should I use?
We've created an easy to follow table to help employers decide which form to complete on a member’s retirement.
Completing retirement application form AW8/AW8P: Which form should I use? (PDF: 42KB)
BNF SNOMED mapping
We publish BNF / SNOMED mapping data.
One Drug Database (ODD) has been implemented. As the data has now moved to the new format, we have updated the BNF SNOMED mapping file to reflect this. The 'MDR: Product Description' has been replaced with the…
NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service June 2025
The service specification and patient group directions (PGD) for the NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service have been updated to allow for the inclusion of supplies of oral emergency contraception. These documents will be published by NHS England (NHSE…