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The Lateral flow device tests supply service for patients potentially eligible for COVID-19 treatments (LFD service) was commissioned as an Advanced service from 6th November 2023. In March 2024 it was announced that the service would continue to be commissioned [...]
Published on: 16th October 2023 | Updated on: 26th June 2025
The October 2023 Drug Tariff has been updated to include a deadline for submission of any outstanding referred back prescriptions to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) for payment. All prescriptions that have been referred-back must be completed and returned [...]
Published on: 27th September 2023 | Updated on: 27th September 2023
England’s community pharmacies received strong Parliamentary backing yesterday with 15 MPs represented at a PSNC-coordinated roundtable, as part of the wider Save Our Pharmacies campaign. Sector leaders attended the summit, which was chaired by Stephen Hammond MP, to brief MPs [...]
Published on: 22nd March 2023 | Updated on: 22nd March 2023
This page contains information about the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS), which is commissioned by NHS England as an Advanced service. The PCS commenced on 24th April 2023, allowing the on-going supply of oral contraception (OC) from community pharmacies. From 1st December [...]
Published on: 22nd September 2022 | Updated on: 14th July 2025
Roll-out of Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Phase 4 to prescribers enables those prescribers to use electronic prescribing even for those patients that do not have EPS nomination. This helps the move towards greater percentage of EPS dispensing. See also one-pager: Differences [...]
Published on: 25th May 2022 | Updated on: 26th May 2022
This page contains the answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) posed by pharmacy owners and LPCs on the Hypertension Case-Finding Service. Please note, this page has been updated to reflect the service requirements from 1st December 2023; please see our [...]
Published on: 13th October 2021 | Updated on: 17th March 2025
Read more about CP ITG and its work at: the Community Pharmacy IT Group (CP ITG) webpage. This ‘CP ITG workstream update (archive)‘ webpage sets out information following past CP ITG meetings based on past pharmacy IT bulletin. The bulletins [...]
Published on: 4th October 2021 | Updated on: 20th May 2025
Last week there was an announcement of the release of an updated version of the NHS Community Pharmacy COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device (LFD) Distribution Service (Pharmacy Collect) service specification, which will apply from 4th October 2021. The updated service specification follows [...]
Published on: 14th September 2021 | Updated on: 3rd October 2023
This page contains information about the Hypertension Case-Finding Service which was commissioned as an Advanced service from 1st October 2021. In public-facing communications, the service is described as the NHS Blood Pressure Check Service. Latest update On 31st March 2025, [...]
Published on: 23rd August 2021 | Updated on: 3rd July 2025
This page contains information about the Smoking Cessation Service (SCS) which was commissioned as an Advanced service from 10th March 2022. Latest updates On 31st March 2025, the details of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 were announced, which included changes [...]
Published on: 23rd August 2021 | Updated on: 31st March 2025
An expensive item is any item (drug or appliance) with a net ingredient cost (NIC) of £100 or more i.e. the total cost of the prescription item must be equal to or over £100. The total NIC value is calculated [...]
Published on: 1st July 2021 | Updated on: 18th July 2022
Electronic mail (’email’) is a method of passing messages (“mail”) between persons using electronic devices. About NHSmail: Pharmacy contractors are recommended to use NHSmail as their primary email solution, where possible. NHSmail is a managed secure email service which is [...]
Published on: 27th May 2021 | Updated on: 7th April 2022
The NHS Business Services Authority’s (NHSBSA) Information Services Portal (ISP) enables contractors to access detailed information about their priced prescriptions. Once you have logged into the portal you will be able to view your prescription item report (‘PIR’); view your [...]
Published on: 11th March 2021 | Updated on: 8th September 2022
Community Pharmacy England recommends pharmacy owners always take steps to reconcile their NHS payments, i.e. what was processed or claimed for from the NHS compared to what has been reimbursed by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), to identify any [...]
Published on: 11th March 2021 | Updated on: 15th January 2024
Community Pharmacy England has created a payment timetable and deadline tracker to assist pharmacy owners with checking and claiming payments for the following services: Appliance Use Review (AUR) Covid-19 Vaccinations (please note, this is a locally commissioned service) Discharge Medicines Service [...]
Published on: 22nd February 2021 | Updated on: 19th May 2025
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