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Patient exemption checking: a guide for pharmacy teams in England
From 1 September 2021, the temporary signature suspension has been lifted. Patients, or their representatives, will again be required to sign the reverse of NHS prescription, dental and eye care forms, or tokens for prescriptions presented at the…
Accessing patient data to maximise eRD
If you’re a GP, we can help you with electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD). Based on our prescribing data, we’re able to provide you with NHS Numbers of patients who might be suitable for eRD. So far, we’ve supported almost 3,500 practices with data…
Changes to the FP10 NHS prescription form
New prescription forms are being introduced in England to help eligible patients correctly claim free NHS prescriptions and avoid penalty charges.
The suite of FP10 prescription forms has been changed by the Department of Health and Social Care (…
Dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d)
The dm+d is a dictionary of descriptions and codes which represent medicines and devices in use across the NHS. The dm+d data is refreshed weekly and contains a huge variety of information, including:
whether a product will be reimbursed by…
Changes to sorting requirements and new FP34C forms
The following is an announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC):
The increased uptake of electronic prescriptions has resulted in a significant reduction of paper prescription submissions. Approximately 5% of the prescriptions…
2022 Pharmacy Access Scheme
This is an announcement on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI).
The new 2022 Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS) will come into effect from 1 January 2022. The revised scheme is part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 5-year…
Pharmacy First
Part VIC Redetermination (PDF: 286KB)
From 1 December 2023, the NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service will relaunch and the NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) will expand to include the initiation of oral…
How to avoid unidentified prescribing
Unidentified prescribing occurs when the costs from a prescription cannot be matched to a prescriber at that practice or organisation. If we cannot match a prescriber to a practice, we will attribute prescribing costs to the lead prescriber at that…
Drug Tariff Part IX information
The NHSBSA supports its staff to work in a hybrid home/office way. Part IX applications are most efficiently processed when they are submitted using email and we strongly encourage applicants to do this. Failure to do so may result in the…
eRD information for pharmacies
Our GP Assurance team is working in collaboration with Primary Care Networks, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Health Innovation Networks to help prescribers and dispensers realise the benefits of increased electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) use…