PQS: Just over a week until deadline to meet the gateway criterion

Pharmacy owners have one week left to meet the requirements of the gateway criterion for the 2025/26 Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS).

Pharmacy owners must have signed up to deliver the Pharmacy First Service and the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) by the end of 31st August 2025 and remain registered for both services until the end of the scheme, 31st March 2026.

Any pharmacy owners that de-register between 1st September 2025 until the end of the scheme, 31st March 2026 will not meet the gateway criterion for this scheme and therefore will not be able to make a declaration. Those who de-register after the close of the declaration but before 31st March 2026 will have their PQS payments recovered by NHSBSA.

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