Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

You asked us:

‘Thank you for the data supplied (in FoI request 01863) for the Pharmacy First Service.

May I request the data already provided for the month February now be provided for March 2024 and April 2024 laid out as per the February 2024 data provided

Column 1 YEAR MONTH

Column 2 CONTRACTOR CODE

Column 3 CONTRACTOR OWNER NAME

Column 4 CONTRACTOR ADDRESS

Column 5 POSTCODE

Column 6 INTEGRATED CARE BOARD CODE

Column 7 INTEGRATED CARE BOARD NAME

Column 8 PF INITIAL FIXED PAYMENT

Column 9 PF CP CONSULTATION FEE

Column 10 PF CP MONTHLY FIXED PAY

Column 11 PF CP VAT VALUE’

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 13 May 2024.

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.

Our response

The NHSBSA does hold the requested information; however, we estimate that the cost of compliance with the request would exceed the appropriate limit under section 12 of the FOIA.

We estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the non-central Government limit of £450. The limit has been specified in The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 and represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the NHSBSA holds the information, and locating, retrieving, extracting and checking the information.

Please see the following calculations regarding your request:

Task

Approximate Staff Time (Hours)

Scoping and Investigation for Lead analyst to access and use new data tables

5.5

Scoping and Investigation for QR analyst to access and use new data tables

5.5

Estimated time for MYS and Data Warehouse staff to answer queries generated by scoping and investigation.

2

Develop standard Query Template for data extraction

5.5

QR standard Query Template for data extraction

4

Determine whether data meets specific query

2.5

Develop specific query (adapted from template)

1.5

Test Specific Query (time assumes limited prior experience with dataset)

1.5

Assemble output of query into suitable format, produce Documentation and notes (assumes use of standard or simple fields)

1.5

Review final output

1.5

Total (hours):

31

We estimate that the processed data for March 2024 will be available around the 10 June 2024, and the data for April 2024 will be available around the 10 July 2024.

Please note for future requests, the processed data is usually made available within the first ten days of the month, three months after the required month (E.g., March data is available in June, April data is available in July etc); therefore, we suggest that you make any future FOI requests after the 10th of the month.