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Complete the Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework screening questionnaire
We're reminding pharmacy contractors to complete this year's Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire by 11:59pm on Saturday 24 July 2021.
Around 2,000 pharmacies still need to complete this year’s CPAF, which is…
NHS Pharmacy First Service (PFS)
The PFS will be a new advanced service that will replace the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS). The full service will consist of three elements:
Pharmacy First (clinical pathways) – new element
Pharmacy First (urgent repeat…
BNF Code Changes January 2021
The annual BNF version changes are due to be implemented with January 2021 dispensing data, planned publication of this data is around mid-March 2021.
The latest published mapping file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2020 data…
Community Pharmacy Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service
The Directions for the Community Pharmacy Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service have been extended until 31st March 2023. Contractors should note that the determination is retrospective and it is backdated to 1st April 2022, therefore contractors are…
Drug Tariff News Part VIC National Influenza Adult Vaccination Service Advanced Service - Community Pharmacy
The Department of Health and NHS England have published Directions providing the legal basis for the Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service:
The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services) (Amended) Directions 2016…
The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services and Emergency Declaration) (Amendment) (England) Directions 2021
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
The declaration of emergency requiring the flexible provision of pharmaceutical services, made in the directions signed in March 2020, will now be extended from…
Detailed Prescribing Information is being decommissioned - update
The Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI) currently available in Information Services Portal (ISP) is being decommissioned.
The dataset January 2021 published in March 2021 was to be the final dataset to be published via ISP with future data…
Pharmacy First - Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework
This is a message on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care
On Monday 31 March 2025, the details of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 were announced, which included changes to Pharmacy First; one of the changes announced was a…
Detailed Prescribing Information - has been decommissioned
Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI), available through the Information Services Portal, has now been decommissioned.
The prescribing data will now only be available as the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) available through our Open Data Portal…
Drug Tariff Part VIC – NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Contractors should note from 1 September 2023 claims for payment for the NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service should be submitted via an IT…