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Introduction of NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service and Updates to the Community Pharmacy Covid-19 Lateral Flow Device Distribution Service
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service
New Secretary of State Directions 7BG and 7BH of the 2013 Direction (PDF: 212KB) published today, 30 …
NHS Discharge Medicines Service
The NHS Discharge Medicines Service (NHS DMS) is a new essential service for community pharmacy contractors. As an essential service, it must be provided by all community pharmacy contractors.
The service has been established to:
ensure…
FP34C submission to move to MYS in April
From April (for prescriptions dispensed in March 2022) all pharmacy contractors must submit their FP34C through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal.
The change was announced in the September 2021 Drug Tariff. It means that, from April (for…
Complete the Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework screening questionnaire
We're reminding pharmacy contractors to complete this year's Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire by 11:59pm on Saturday 24 July 2021.
Around 2,000 pharmacies still need to complete this year’s CPAF, which is…
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…
Drug Tariff News Part VIC National Influenza Adult Vaccination Service Advanced Service - Community Pharmacy
The Department of Health and NHS England have published Directions providing the legal basis for the Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service:
The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services) (Amended) Directions 2016…
The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services and Emergency Declaration) (Amendment) (England) Directions 2021
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
The declaration of emergency requiring the flexible provision of pharmaceutical services, made in the directions signed in March 2020, will now be extended from…
BNF Code Changes January 2021
The annual BNF version changes are due to be implemented with January 2021 dispensing data, planned publication of this data is around mid-March 2021.
The latest published mapping file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2020 data…
Detailed Prescribing Information is being decommissioned - update
The Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI) currently available in Information Services Portal (ISP) is being decommissioned.
The dataset January 2021 published in March 2021 was to be the final dataset to be published via ISP with future data…