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NHSBSA Information Services is undergoing a major technology overhaul.  Our legacy mainframe system, which feeds a number of reports currently reported through Information Services Portal (ISP) will be decommissioned by January 2019. This means…

Liquid medicines are commonly prescribed for children. For many drugs, there is a range of different concentrations of liquid available. If the concentration is changed and the parents and carers do not adjust the volume to be given, this can lead…

Hints and tips Differences between the eOPS dashboards There are currently 3 versions of eOPS dashboards available. We’ve provided some guidance that will explain the differences between all 3, and make sure you are using the right version for…

Changes to Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) monthly administrative data In December 2020, we held a public consultation on changing the methodology used in the PCA annual national statistics and expanding their content. Following this consultation…

Real Time Exemption Checking (RTEC) is designed to streamline the process for patients and pharmacy teams by improving how exemption categories are recorded.  The NHSBSA reporting of RTEC exemptions has been restricted due to system supplier issues…

Public insight portal Prescription, organisation and demographic data are available to the public through 'Catalyst' our new online application. To gain access to 'Catalyst', you will be required to input an ID and password: ID - NHSBSAGuest…

Financial forecasting helps commissioners and providers with financial planning. The forecast out-turn is a forecast of the spend for each practice for the current financial year, calculated using the expected profile of expenditure for England…

Some patients have certain clinical needs that can’t be met by licensed medicinal products. The law allows the manufacture and supply of unlicensed medicines which are called special orders (or specials) that meet these clinical needs. Special…

The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) and electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) utilisation dashboards provide information on the electronic prescription service and electronic repeat dispensing. Since June 2020, several enhancements have been…

Both our organisation and NHS England and NHS Improvement are committed to the transparency agenda. We consider publishing the details of NHS payments to dentists to be in the public interest. Since 2015, we’ve published details of these payments…