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Contact information for pharmacy IT suppliers
Pharmacy contractors can find more information about RTEC, including how to register, on the Community Pharmacy England (CPE) website.
If you want to submit a request to change the RTEC service you currently provide email RTECHES@nhsbsa.nhs.uk
Drug Tariff Part VIIA - Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) May 2025
Contractors should note the changes to Part VIIA PQS 25/26, specifically regarding the window that will be used to establish prescription volume for the purposes of banding.
Patient prescription charges
It's important that you sort your prescriptions into chargeable and exempt groups to make sure you get the right reimbursement.
Prescription charges and your reimbursement
When dispensing contractors send their prescription forms to us for…
Introducing proposed retirement flexibilities
In December the Department of Health and Social Care announced proposals to change the NHS Pension Scheme regulations to enable NHS staff to work flexibly up to and beyond retirement age.
We included details of the DHSC’s proposals in our December…
NHS Pensions Sevice Improvement and Development Board meeting July 2017
Following the introduction of the administration levy on 1 April 2017 which saw the shift of funding the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme from the Department of Health to NHS employers, we changed the…
Calculating whole time equivalent pensionable pay for a part time Officer (or Practice staff) member who receives additional or supplementary payments
The following information updates previous guidance provided in our January 2016 newsletter.
The article in the January 2016 Employer Newsletter informed you continue to use your current method of calculating notional whole time pay for part time…
Membership enquiries
The website membership enquiry process will be updated to include Retrospective and Part Time Access (PTA) as well as a few smaller changes with the existing standard membership. The volume of Retrospective and PTA membership enquiries is relatively…
Incorrect forms for membership enquiries
We are still receiving membership enquiries on incorrect forms. Please be reminded of the processes below as advised in the June 2019 newsletter.
The website membership enquiry process has been updated to include Retrospective and Part Time Access…
Post payment verification and sending us your evidence
If you've been contacted by our Provider Assurance Ophthalmic team as part of our post payment verification (PPV) activities, NHS Egress is a secure and simple way to send us your evidence.
The NHS Egress platform will enable you to send secure…
Safer management of controlled drugs
In order to support the work of controlled drug (CD) accountable officers and SICBLs, a working group has supported us in the development of some CD metrics.
The group have chosen a number of specific areas of prescribing to focus on, based on the…