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Harnessing the power of NHS prescriptions data for care home patients: the potential and possibilities
The NHSBSA Data Science and Advanced Analytics team deliver actionable insights from data through innovation, experimentation and collaboration.…
Antimicrobial stewardship
'Antibiotic quality premium'
The NHS England antibiotic quality premium monitoring dashboard has been produced to help NHS England monitor Sub Integrated Care Board Locations' (SICBLs) (previously CCGs) performance in the delivery of the '…
FP34C submission to move to MYS in April
From April (for prescriptions dispensed in March 2022) all pharmacy contractors must submit their FP34C through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal.
The change was announced in the September 2021 Drug Tariff. It means that, from April (for…
Hospital/Foundation Trusts
Authorised signatories within Hospital Trusts must inform us of hospital:
ePACT codes for prescribing purposes
cost centres
prescribers within their organisation
Additions, deletions and changes to organisational and prescriber data need to…
November 2023 Reimbursement Price Changes
The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Assembly of Wales has confirmed that the following products in Part VIIIA of the Drug Tariff have had their reimbursement prices redetermined for November 2023 to reflect an increase in their…
BNF Code Changes- January 2024
The annual version changes relating to the BNF Structure have been implemented with January 2024 dispensing data.
The latest file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2023 data against the BNF presentation code as of January 2024 data. …
Drug Tariff update – Naltrexone 50mg tablets
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have re-determined that the reimbursement price for the following Category A product will be £82.15 (instead of £774.23 as currently set out in July’s Drug Tariff):
Naltrexone 50mg tablets (28)…
General Pharmaceutical Services in England 2015-16 - 2023-24
Misinterpreting active community pharmacies
We have been made aware that our headline figure for active community pharmacies can be misinterpreted. We would like to draw your attention to some important information for this figure.
When a…
Late price changes applied to some AAH products
AAH has notified the NHSBSA that the price changes shown below will apply to their products with effect from 1 October 2016. Prescriptions dispensed from October 2016 onwards will be processed taking these price changes into account.…
Contractor warning: unsolicited calls claiming to be from the NHSBSA
Unfortunately some pharmacists have let us know that they’ve recently been contacted by someone claiming to be from 'the NHSBSA', ‘the PPA’ or ‘Prescription Services’. The caller says that the pharmacist needs to provide their bank details so they…