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Published 7 July 2022. Summary Mental health is a key area of the NHS Long Term Plan published in 2019.  This publication aims to describe the prescribing of medicines used to improve mental health in England that are subsequently dispensed in…

Tax Credit payments made by HMRC ended on 5 April 2025 People receiving tax credits were moved to Universal Credit. After your tax credits were stopped, you must meet the Universal Credit conditions to be entitled to full help with health costs.…

Reimbursement and remuneration based data are collected by NHS Prescription Services. The data relates to the total NHS prescriptions dispensed or personally administered in England.  PD1 reports show these in a particular month by each dispenser…

Registered area teams can enter contractor payments for locally commissioned services using the local payments application (LPA). Log in to LPA Available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (excluding bank holidays). Register to use LPA You'll need to…

ICB restructure July 2022 From 1 July 2022, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) have replaced Strategic Information Partnerships (STPs). Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are now Sub-ICB Locations (SICBLs). You can find more information about these…

As we move towards a population health and care system, it is important that dental practices ask new and existing patients for their NHS number. While this information will not affect the FP17 submission, NHS numbers help to identify patients…

We have recently noticed a rise in items that are being referred back to contractors for the reason code RB2B: ‘The order/endorsement is incomplete. The presentation must be present.’ This commonly occurs with handwritten prescriptions. If you…

The data in this dashboard has been extracted from our ePACT2 system by the Dental Public Health Intelligence team at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). We host and publish this data on their behalf. Email DentalPHIntelligence@dhsc.…

The Dental Exemption Checking Service has identified a number of patients aged 60 and over who are incorrectly claiming free NHS dental treatment. This is due to confusion around benefits entitlement, specifically Pension Credit. This currently only…

Since February 2024, a licensed version of Azathioprine 50mg/5ml oral suspension became available. Therefore, for prescriptions dispensed in February and March 2024: where there is an endorsement for the licensed product, then reimbursement will…