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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…

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. …

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)…

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…

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.…

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…

The Best Practice Show 2017 took place at the NEC in Birmingham on 17-18 October, and the NHSBSA was asked to give a presentation to attending dispensing doctors about the payment process. Phil Edwards (Business Development pharmacist) and Kerry…

This includes a range of reports providing information on the volume and cost of prescribing for selected organisations down to prescriber level. Volume and cost summary Provides high level figures on the volume and cost of prescribing broken down…

There’s an increasing volume of computerised prescriptions each month where the prescriber has prescribed a generic Drug Tariff Part VIIIA product but also with the name of the branded product or the supplier/ manufacturer added in brackets. In…

Access for: registered users through ePACT2 public users through Catalyst The charts and data tables show values for prescribing comparators supporting the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) medicine use and procurement…