The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that, from December, there is a suspension of the requirement for community pharmacies to submit certain EPS tokens. From this date pharmacy contractors must continue to submit only EPS tokens related to Serious Shortages Protocols (SSPs) to facilitate payment.
This is to coincide with the temporary suspension of the requirement for patient signatures on prescription forms.
These suspensions are expected to be in place initially until 31 March 2021.
However, pharmacy contractors are advised that these suspensions will be kept under review and may be:
- extended, if there continues to be a cross infection risk
- removed, as soon as it is deemed safe for patients to resume signing forms
If there is any change it will be published on our website.