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Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI), available through the Information Services Portal, has now been decommissioned.  The prescribing data will now only be available as the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) available through our Open Data Portal…

This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. Contractors should note from 1 September 2023 claims for payment for the NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service should be submitted via an IT…

From 1 March 2024, the monthly Flat Fee Payment paid to pharmacy contractors will be set at zero. In accordance with the standard payment schedules, this change will be reflected in payments made from June 2024. This is reflected in the Part VIA…

The PFS will be a new advanced service that will replace the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS). The full service will consist of three elements: Pharmacy First (clinical pathways) – new element Pharmacy First (urgent repeat…

Queries regarding the Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework Please contact pharmacysupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk with any queries regarding the Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF). Background NHS England and delegated Integrated Care Boards…

Prescription data for items prescribed in England and dispensed in Scotland from June 2023 to June 2024 is not held in ePACT2. From July onwards the data feed into ePACT2 should have been restored.  The missing Scottish dispensing data can be found…

Enhanced data quality: Building foundations with our data profiling capability and operating model Effective data management is critical to achieving our ambitions of becoming a data driven organisation and a key part of data management is data…

The annual version changes relating to the BNF Structure have been implemented with January 2024 dispensing data.  The latest file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2023 data against the BNF presentation code as of January 2024 data. …

After we implement the One Drug Database (ODD) changes, our systems will have data in the new format aligned to dm+d. This will include historic remapped data up to and including December 2019. The refresh with January 2020 data will take place on…

We produce electronic payment schedule data called 'electronic FP34 data'. Contractors can use this instead of receiving a paper copy. This is not a like-for-like replacement of the paper version. You'll need to develop your own IT solution to…