Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Following receipt of my FOI request 9996 received in October 2023, can you now provide me with an updated spread sheet for the period July 2023 through to September 2023, by month, in the same format as previously supplied for all the dispensing appliance contractor ODS codes.’

Your request was received on 5th December 2023 and has been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

July 2023

Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information covering July 2023 as this is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you have requested is available via the following web link:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01426

The overall total requested is the sum of the columns from Basic Price (column V) to Out of pocket expenses (column AP).

August – September 2023

A copy of the information is attached.

Please note that we are unable to reproduce the data in the same format as FOI-09996 as this report has recently been refreshed and therefore, some columns have different headings. The overall total requested is the sum of the columns from Basic Price (column V) to Out of pocket expenses (column AP).

NHS Prescription Services process prescriptions for Pharmacy Contractors, Appliance Contractors, Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration with information then used to make payments to pharmacists and appliance contractors in England for prescriptions dispensed in primary care settings (other arrangements are in place for making payments to Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration). This involves processing over 1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year. The information gathered from this process is then used to provide information on costs and trends in prescribing in England and Wales to over 25,000 registered NHS and Department of Health and Social Care users.

Data source

Source System – Insight Data Warehouse.

Time period

August and September 2023

This dataset

FOI 01587 has 2 files – August and September 2023

This report consists of a management information file detailing monthly Appliance Contractor payments by type of payment and contractor account. Payments include all drug costs, fees, patient charges, locally authorised payments, etc. Other details such as the numbers of items dispensed and patient charges collected are also included.

The management information file reflects the contractor's payment and prescription data associated with the Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) structure at the relevant payment date.

Data Queries

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