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The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that the reimbursement price for the following products has been redetermined for August 2024 prescriptions. This is to reflect an increase in the NHS list price. Product…

The NHS Discharge Medicines Service (NHS DMS) is a new essential service for community pharmacy contractors. As an essential service, it must be provided by all community pharmacy contractors. The service has been established to:   ensure…

Prisoners who are released from prison unexpectedly can get their medicines for free until they arrange to see their GP or register with a new GP.  They’ll need to take an FP10 or FP10MDA to the pharmacy. Prison prescribing on FP10 and FP10MDA…

This is an announcement on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI). The new 2022 Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS) will come into effect from 1 January 2022. The revised scheme is part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 5-year…

Following the expansion of the New Medicine Service (NMS) in September 2021, there was an ambition to develop clinical IT systems that would support contractors and staff providing the service. This was part of the agreement on Year 3 of the…

The ‘One Drug Database’ project is underway, which will move all of our drug data into one place. This will provide a consistent, single source of information. For years, we’ve had two sources of drug data – Master Data Replacement (MDR) for…

The NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) is a dictionary of descriptions and codes which cover product information about medicines and devices in use across the NHS. It is the recognised NHS standard (SCCI0052) for uniquely identifying…

Part VIC Redetermination (PDF: 286KB) From 1 December 2023, the NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service will relaunch and the NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) will expand to include the initiation of oral…

Unidentified prescribing occurs when the costs from a prescription cannot be matched to a prescriber at that practice or organisation. If we cannot match a prescriber to a practice, we will attribute prescribing costs to the lead prescriber at that…

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…