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NHS Structure Re-Organisation Implementation
From the 1 April 2020 a new organisation structure was implemented by the NHSBSA as agreed by NHS England. Reporting against this new structure will commence from April 2020 dispensing data which will be released mid-June 2020. These changes will…
User guides
Guides to get you started
ePACT2 User Guide - Quick Start (PDF: 740KB)ePACT2 User Guide - Accessing and Using Dashboards and Pre-built Reports (PDF: 2.1MB)
Guides by organisation type
Groups of guides to aid you in getting the most from ePACT2…
Opioid Prescribing Comparators dashboard
Opioid prescribing comparators have been developed as part of the work started in response to the Public Health England (PHE) prescribed medicines review.
This dashboard is still a work in progress so we’re working to add more content to help NHS…
ePACT2 news
Articles which will keep customers informed of any updates and changes to the system that they need to be aware of.
BNF code changes - January 2024
The annual version changes relating to the BNF Structure have been implemented with January…
Vaccines centrally procured for a practice through Public Health England
Please remember that where vaccines have been centrally procured for your practice through Public Health England, you should not make a claim to NHS Prescription Services on form FP34D/PD Appendix or FP10 under personal administration arrangements…
Premium-priced generics
There’s an increasing volume of computerised prescriptions each month where the prescriber has prescribed a generic Drug Tariff Part VIIIA product but also with the name of the branded product or the supplier/ manufacturer added in brackets.
In…
Important information on drug data
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…
Data download, NHSBSA Open Data Portal and One Drug Database (ODD) update 19 February 2020
The NHS currently releases detailed information on prescribing of medications via two datasets, both of which are sourced from NHSBSA data:
•Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI), released by NHS Business Services Authority via the ISP portal.
•…
Information Services Portal (ISP)
Pharmacy Contractors who require access to their Payment Information Schedules are required to email:
cpspricinginformation@nhsbsa.nhs.uk
Registered users within the NHS and public sector can use the portal to access data about prescribing and…
Volume and cost of prescribing charts
These charts are updated each month and show up to five years' data.
They show the:
number and cost of items
number of items declared by pharmacy contractors
Number of items declared by pharmacy contractors in England
At the end of each…