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End to temporary suspension of submission of certain EPS tokens and patient signatures on pharmacy, dental and eye care forms
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Since 1 November 2020 to 31 August 2021 the requirement for patient (or their representatives) signatures on NHS prescription, dental and eye care forms was…
COVID-19 home delivery service for dispensing doctors claim form
The form that dispensing doctors must use to claim payment for the COVID-19 home delivery service is now available from the NHSBSA website.
From 9 April 2020, NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned a home delivery service (PDF: 374KB) from…
COVID-19 essential and advanced services
From 9 April 2020, two services have been put in place.
Essential service
During the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacy contractors are requested to act as ‘backstop’ for the delivery of medicines for the 1.4 million shielded patients.
If the patient…
Reimbursement of Covid-19 costs incurred by pharmacy contractors and recovery of the uplift to the advance payments received between 1 April 2020 and 1 July 2020
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Community Pharmacy contractors can now submit claims for the additional costs due to Covid-19 incurred between 1 March 2020 and 31 March 2021 for the delivery of…
Pharmacy Quality Scheme 2021/22 re-determination
Pharmacy contractors should note for Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2021/22, that the arrangements for claiming payment for PQS have been altered in recognition of the significant contribution of the pharmacy workforce to the COVID-19 vaccination…
Updates to August and September Drug Tariff
Pharmacy Quality Scheme
Pharmacy contractors should note for PQS 2020/21 Part 2, for the purposes of the Primary Care Network prevention domain and the Primary Care Network Business Continuity domain; where a PCN has disbanded and the pharmacy is…
Temporary suspension of submission of certain EPS tokens
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that, from December, there is a suspension of the requirement for community pharmacies to submit certain EPS tokens. From this date pharmacy contractors must continue to submit only EPS…
Extension of temporary suspension of submission of certain EPS tokens
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Since December 2020, the requirement for community pharmacies to submit certain EPS tokens has been suspended. Only EPS tokens related to Serious Shortages…
Extension of the Community Pharmacy Medicines Delivery Service and COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device Distribution Service (Pharmacy Collect)
This is an announcement on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI):
NHS Test and Trace has confirmed the extension of both the Community Pharmacy COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device Distribution Service (Pharmacy Collect) and the Medicines…
Easter opening hours - determination
Pharmacy contractors were required to open on Good Friday 2020 and Easter Monday 2020 as a direct consequence of the NHS England and NHS Improvement announcement made in accordance with paragraph 27A of Schedule 4 to the Pharmaceutical Services…