Contract changes: clinical services to be included in advance payments

For some time at Community Pharmacy England, we have been pressing DHSC to agree to include the payments for clinical services in the advance payments pharmacy owners receive from the NHSBSA.

DHSC have now agreed to this and the NHSBSA have been working on their systems to allow advance payments for clinical services.

This will take time to undertake for all services, but starting with consultations for the Hypertension Case-Finding Service and the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) provided in April 2025, the advance consultation fees for those services will be paid to pharmacy owners on the same day as the current advance payment.

Any reimbursement for items supplied in the PCS will also be factored into the calculation for the main advance payment itself.