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Drug Tariff Part VIC – Advanced Services – April 2023
From 1 April 2023 there will be amendments to Part VIC of the Drug Tariff to align with recent changes to service specifications for Advanced Services.
From 1 April 2023 pharmacy technicians will be able to perform blood pressure checks as part of…
Drug Reimbursement – Azathioprine 50mg/5ml oral suspension
Since February 2024, a licensed version of Azathioprine 50mg/5ml oral suspension became available. Therefore, for prescriptions dispensed in February and March 2024:
where there is an endorsement for the licensed product, then reimbursement will…
New Medicine Service (NMS) – Drug Lists
NMS medicines
NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) has released a New Medicine Service updated service specification to be used from 1 September 2021:
Advanced Service Specification – NHS New Medicine Service (NMS) [PDF: 245KB]As outlined in Part…
COVID-19 - Uplift to pharmacy contractors’ payment on 1 April and on 1 May
To mitigate cash flow issues that contractors are facing due to COVID-19, an uplift of £300 million in total over the next two months will be made to contractors’ ‘advance payments’.
The first, of £200million will give the average pharmacy…
Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service
The Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service is a new advanced service for community pharmacy commencing in September 2020. Through this service, people who inject drugs who are not currently accessing community drug and alcohol treatment services will…
End of the paper Drug Tariff in England
Information for Contractors in England on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC):
Dispensing contractors in England should note that from April 2021 the Drug Tariff will no longer be printed and distributed as a paper document.…
Amendment to the NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) and Part XVI Notes on Charges
The following is an announcement on behalf of DHSC:
Following the publication of Amended Directions for the CPCS (Directions 7BA and 7BB) on the 28 August, the determination for the Community Pharmacist Consultation Advanced Service (CPCS) has been…
Updates to November 2020 Drug Tariff
Priadel 200mg/400mg modified release tablets
The Department of Health and Social Care has retrospectively determined that prescriptions for Priadel 200mg modified-release tablets will be reimbursed at the price of £7.50 and Priadel 400mg modified-…
Reimbursement for PPE costs incurred within community pharmacy and DACs during the Covid-19 pandemic response
From 1 January 2021, pharmacy contractors will be eligible to claim for PPE that was purchased between 27 February 2020 and 31 December 2020 for use in the delivery of NHS pharmaceutical services up to 31 March 2021 as a result of COVID-19 infection…
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…