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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…
Medicines optimisation: key therapeutic topics consultation for the 2017 update
As part of the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Programme's work to support the Department of Health and NHS England with Medicines Optimisation, they are in the process of updating the Medicines optimisation: key therapeutic topics document. The…
Programme budget categories (PBC)
Access to PBC for:
registered users is through ePACT2
public users is through Catalyst
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has set up a national programme budget project to develop a primary source of information.
This can be…
Oversupply dashboard
The comparators in this dashboard have been developed in response to the National Overprescribing Review (NOR). They relate to the quality of the prescribing system in addressing or avoiding overprescribing.
Specifically, the comparators relate to…