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Community Pharmacy Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service
The Directions for the Community Pharmacy Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service have been extended until 31st March 2023. Contractors should note that the determination is retrospective and it is backdated to 1st April 2022, therefore contractors are…
Changes to Drug Tariff determination - SSP034
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy contractors should note for SSP034, where the patient has previously been supplied with a spacer, and the alternative inhaler to be supplied to the patient in…
Dispensing doctor and personal administration payments
Dispensing doctor payments
We provide information to Primary Care Organisation payment sites so that they can make payments to dispensing doctors. The data is dispatched no later than the 15th of the month after the month we receive it.
The actual…
Drug Tariff update – Naltrexone 50mg tablets
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have re-determined that the reimbursement price for the following Category A product will be £82.15 (instead of £774.23 as currently set out in July’s Drug Tariff):
Naltrexone 50mg tablets (28)…
eRD information for patients
If you are already receiving, or have agreed to receive, electronic prescriptions and you get regular or repeat medicines that do not change, your GP may have moved you on to electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD). This means your GP can send your…
Further Amendment to the Community Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service (CPSIVAS)
The following is an announcement on behalf of DHSC:
Pharmacy contractors should note the changes to the process for submitting claims associated with offsite provision of the Community Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service (…
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…
July 2023 Concession price update
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that the following products in Part VIIIA of the Drug Tariff have had their concessionary prices redetermined for July 2023:
Product
Pack size
Drug Tariff…
Retrospective top-up payment for Concessionary prices
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is introducing a new ‘Retrospective top-up payment for Concessionary prices’ which will apply from April 2024.
Every quarter, where considered appropriate by DHSC in consultation with Community…
Drug Tariff news - March Part VIIIA reimbursement prices
The Department of Health has agreed that the March Drug Tariff Part VIIIA reimbursement price for the following items will be as stated below:
Fosinopril 10mg tablets £15.49
Fosinopril 20mg tablets £17.00
Gentamicin 0.3% / Hydrocortisone…