Reminder: EPS token submission

Community Pharmacy England is reminding pharmacy teams about which EPS tokens need to be submitted. The EPS tokens that are required to be sent to the NHSBSA for end-of-month submission are:

• EPS tokens used to capture the paid or exemption declaration.
• Pharmacy First related EPS tokens, where medicines or appliances were supplied as part of a consultation (these should be separated within the batch and marked ‘PF CP’).

Some EPS tokens are not required to be submitted:

• Tokens for age-exempt patients.
• Prescription tokens where only free-of-charge (FOC) items are prescribed.
• Prescriptions tokens where the Real Time Exemption Checking (RTEC) system confirms an exemption.

This information is also presented within our new factsheet: Briefing factsheet: EPS token submission

With the rollout of RTEC, there has been a decrease in the number of EPS tokens submitted to the NHSBSA. RTEC offers pharmacy teams an opportunity to adapt their dispensing standard operating procedures to reduce the printing of EPS tokens in the pharmacy.

A previous survey found that 83% of pharmacy owners supported paperless processing.

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Submission requirements factsheet 

RTEC