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This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. Following the publication of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 5-year deal: year 4 (2022 to 2023) and year 5 (2023 to 2024) letter to contractors on 22…

The National Clinical Audit to be undertaken by all community pharmacy contractors in 2022-23 will focus on preventing harm from Valproate prescribing in patients, of childbearing age, who are biologically able to be pregnant. This has been agreed…

The following parts of the Drug Tariff have been updated to include details from the 2025/26 deal for contractors – further details are included in the Letter to Contractors. Part I – Changes to the Payment Timetable to include earlier fee payments…

These population data sets can be used in conjunction with prescribing data. Variation in prescribing patterns between different practices, clinical commissioning groups and area teams may be influenced by population demographics. For example, an …

NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) will launch its Open Data Portal (ODP) by the end of March 2020 which will give everyone, from NHS commissioners to the public, easy access to data. The NHSBSA Open Data Portal is being developed using ‘CKAN…

The following is an announcement on behalf of DHSC: As outlined in Part VIIA of the Drug Tariff in Table 2 “PQS 2020/21 Part 2 domains” under the Primary Care Network prevention domain, the lower and upper threshold and the points available along…

From January 2025, the Secondary Care Medicines Data (SCMD) published data became accessible on ePACT2 for registered users. This will allow users to create analyses and reports in the ePACT2 interface eliminating the need to download separate data…

The purpose of the quarterly DAF report is to support a standardised approach to contract performance managementmm and to effectively make use of the extensive data currently available.   Indicators used are designed to be informative about overall…

Overview Published 25 April 2024. Summary The Innovation Scorecard reports on the use of medicines and medicine groupings in the NHS in England, which have been positively appraised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE…

Overview Published 31 October 2024. Summary The Innovation Scorecard reports on the use of medicines and medicine groupings in the NHS in England, which have been positively appraised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE…