NHS Prescription Services is a service supplied by the NHS Business Services Authority. We calculate how much pharmacists, GPs who dispense and appliance contractors should be paid as reimbursement and remuneration for medicines and medical devices dispensed to patients from NHS prescription forms. We process more than two million prescription items every working day and payments amount to more than £8 billion a year.
We also provide information services to 25,000 prescribers and managing organisations within the NHS in England, making available five years worth of prescribing, financial and drug information. This helps the NHS and the Department of Health to determine the most cost effective use of drugs.
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