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Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2021/22
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) is looking to introduce an updated Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) from September 2021 with funding maintained at £75…
COVID-19 - Uplift to pharmacy contractors’ payment on 1 April and on 1 May
To mitigate cash flow issues that contractors are facing due to COVID-19, an uplift of £300 million in total over the next two months will be made to contractors’ ‘advance payments’.
The first, of £200million will give the average pharmacy…
COVID-19 - Uplift to pharmacy contractors’ payment on 1 June
On behalf of DHSC we can announce that, to further mitigate cash flow issues that contractors are facing due to COVID-19, a total uplift of £50 million across all contractors will be made to contractors’ ‘advance payments’ on 1 June. The calculation…
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 uplift to pharmacy contractors’ payment on 1 July
On behalf of DHSC we can announce that, to further mitigate cash flow issues that contractors are facing due to coronavirus (COVID-19), a total uplift of £20 million across all contractors will be made to contractors’ advance payments on 1 July.…
Pharmacy Quality Scheme 2020/21
The Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2020/21 will comprise of two parts:
Part 1 Essential Criteria Checklist will focus solely on COVID-19 activities, including individual COVID-19 risk assessments for all members of staff.
Part 2 will cover more…
Adjustments to support social distancing - determination
From 1 May 2020, to allow pharmacy contractors to safely conduct essential services in pharmacy premises during the Covid-19 pandemic, a contribution will be payable to pharmacies to cover the general costs of adjustments to support social…
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…
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…
Introduction of the NHS Smoking Cessation Service and revocation of the Community Pharmacy Covid-19 Lateral Flow Device Distribution Service
New Secretary of State Directions 7BI and 7BJ (PDF: 196KB) of the 2013 Directions have been signed and published today, 9 March 2022, introducing the NHS Community Pharmacy Smoking Cessation Service.
This will see community pharmacies help to…