Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Following receipt of my FOI request 01587 received in January 2024, can you now provide me with an updated spread sheet for the period October 2023 through to December 2023, by month, in the same format as previously supplied for all the dispensing appliance contractor ODS codes.
Please can you provide the information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.

Your request was received on 6 March 2024 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

A copy of the information is attached. Please read the below notes to gain a full understanding of the data.

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
December 2023

This dataset FOI 01793 has 1 file – December 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.

Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in the response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested for October 2023 and November 2023 is available for web link:

October 2023: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01609

November 2023: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01673

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01793

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