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Prescribing budgets
ICBs are responsible for setting a prescribing budget against each GP practice within their organisation.
Annual prescribing budgets
Following the completion of March’s prescribing data, NHS Prescription Services will send an annual prescribing…
Prescribing monitoring document (PMD)
Access to PMD for:registered users is through ePACT2public users is through Catalyst - for national PMD reportPMD provides monthly financial information about prescribing costs against budgets. This allows the drugs element of unified…
Programme budget categories (PBC)
Access to PBC for:
registered users is through ePACT2
public users is through Catalyst
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has set up a national programme budget project to develop a primary source of information…
Doctors Index Number (DIN)
Every doctor has their own unique DIN, also known as a prescribing code. NHS England issue this to the GP when they qualify.
When a doctor joins, the practice can apply to have their DIN linked to the practice. Both Partners and Salaried GPs…
Premium-priced generics
There’s an increasing volume of computerised prescriptions each month where the prescriber has prescribed a generic Drug Tariff Part VIIIA product but also with the name of the branded product or the supplier/ manufacturer added in brackets.In these…
Roles within the Optimisation team
Head of Workforce Optimisation
The Head of Workforce Optimisation’s role is to plan, strategically carry out and evaluate the effects of a number of programmes and projects that aim to improve the way people work together.
Performance Manager
The…
Unidentified Nurse Prescribing
We receive a substantial number of Practice Nurse (PN) prescriptions for prescribers who have not been registered with NHS Prescription Services at the practice specified on the prescriptions they're issuing. This has resulted in a high volume…
Update on migration of reports from Information Services Portal (ISP) to ePACT2 and Catalyst
We have progressed with migrating a number of reports from ISP to ePACT2 and the new public facing portal ‘Catalyst’. Users will no longer view the migrated reports through ISP.
The migrated reports are now available via ePACT2 for…
Organisation and prescriber changes
Commissioner and provider guidance Authorised signatories within commissioner and provider organisations (Sub-ICB Locations, NHS Foundation Trusts and Independent Sector Healthcare Providers, for example), are responsible for…
Summary of NHSBSA Board minutes - 20 March 2025
Meeting held at 9:00am on 20 March 2025 at Stella House, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Present:
Sue Douthwaite, Chair
Michael Brodie, Chief Executive
Kathy Gillatt, Non-Executive Director
David Leather, Non-Executive Director
Mathew McKie,…