Provision of C-19 vacs from April 2025
NHS England has opened the procurement process for pharmacies that wish to provide the COVID-19 vaccination service from April 2025. This process only applies to:
- Pharmacies not already contracted to provide the service and wishing to apply to provide it from April 2025; and
- Pharmacies already contracted to provide the service but whose contract only runs up until the end of March 2025.
Most pharmacies already providing the service are contracted until 31st March 2026; those pharmacies do not need to re-apply in order to continue to provide the service from April 2025, as their contract already covers provision until 31st March 2026.
Guidance documents and details on how pharmacy owners can submit a response, can be found on the NHS Business Services Authority’s webpage.
Pharmacy owners who plan to apply to provide the service should read the guidance (which outlines key deadlines and processes) and contractual agreements (which are available on the NHS England website) and submit their response document by the deadline.
The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm on 19th November 2024.