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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for GOC registrants
To assist GOS contractors and performers in England, our team of clinical advisors often make available General Optical Council approved CPD. These consist of both distance learning materials and online presentation events.
Free non-interactive and…
Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS)
About the scheme
The Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) forms part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF). PQS is designed to support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and reward community pharmacies that deliver quality criteria in…
Provider Assurance
We support primary care contractors to meet their contractual obligations. We do this on behalf of NHS England and the Welsh Government.
We currently support dental providers, GPs, General Ophthalmic Services contractors, and pharmaceutical…
Post-payment verification (PPV)
Each quarter, we will select a sample of GOS Contractors to take part in a PPV exercise. If you are selected, we will check a sample of your GOS submissions against clinical evidence. This will provide assurance to NHS England that claims are being…
Wales ACORN support
If you're a provider or performer based in Wales, an Assessment of Clinical Oral Risks and Need (ACORN) is a risk assessment tool and includes components that should be recorded as part of a thorough oral health assessment. An ACORN should be …
Provider Assurance Dental (PAD)
Activities we carry out
The Provider Assurance Dental (PAD) team undertake contract and performance management activities on behalf of regional teams, reducing the burden on them. Regional teams retain decision-making authority with a light-touch…
Our purpose and what we do
NHSBSA Provider Assurance is a service commissioned by NHS Improvement and Welsh Government. We support stakeholders and providers ensuring their legal and regulatory responsibilities are met regarding the management of commissioned primary care…
Conscious sedation assurance pilot
In March 2017 NHS England’s Office of Chief Dental Officer England published Commissioning Dental Services: Service standards for Conscious Sedation in a primary care setting.
The document set out the requirements for a contractor who offers care…
Provider Assurance General Practice Services
Activities we carry out
We support GPs, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and Health Innovation Networks with the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and high volume flu and…
GOS practice visits
It’s important that each GOS contractor is compliant with the General Ophthalmic Services Contracts Regulations 2008.
If you are a GOS contractor, as part of our contract management activity, we will organise a visit to your practice prior to the…