Request

Please could you provide the following information for each claim made by GPs and PCNs for administering the COVID-19 vaccinations from the start of the vaccination program to the present.

• The name and postcode of the GP practice or PCN.
• The submission date.
• The number of vaccines administered.
• The payment made or to be made.

Response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information is attached.

Please read the notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

The NHSBSA calculates payments for Covid-19 vaccinations to Pharmacies and Primary Care Network (PCN) providers in England. Covid19 vaccination data is keyed in via Point of Care (POC) Systems and then transferred to the NHSBSA Manage Your Service (MYS) application. Each month, vaccine providers submit claims to request payment based on the data that has been transferred into MYS. To be paid in a timely fashion, claims must be submitted during a specified declaration submission period. Should claims be submitted outside the submission period, they will be processed in the following period. This means that in some cases there is a difference between the number of vaccines ‘claimed' and the number that have been 'paid'.

We do not hold Primary Care Network (PCN) Grouping data that we can confidently join to the GP Practice Organisation Data Service (ODS) Code. Data is provided for the GP Practice ODS Code that represented its whole PCN Grouping for the purpose of claiming fees for Covid-19 vaccines.

The names, addresses and postcodes of GP practices is publicly available via the NHS Digital ODS data here https://digital.nhs.uk/services/organisation-data-service/export-data-files/csv-downloads/gp-and-gp-practice-related-data

Each provided ODS code can be linked to GP practice address and post code data in the epraccur dataset or using other ODS tools such as ODS portal search or ODS data point.

Both the number of 'claimed' and 'paid' vaccinations have been reported in this request.

We have included values for the total payment calculated, with an additional column for any ancillary payment calculated after the original payment.

Data included in this request is limited to vaccinations carried out by PCNs only.

As requested, we have chosen to report by Submission Date.

Data included in this request is also limited to vaccinations administered between December 2020 and August 2024.

The latest data used is a snapshot of the MYS system data that was taken on Friday 6 September 2024. This is the snapshot of data taken after the August 2024 submission period that was used to calculate payments.

This payment data does not include any adjustments made by NHSBSA Provider Assurance as part of post payment verification exercise. Any adjustments are made at account level and may relate to several months of activity. This data does not include data for claim submissions made in February 2021, as these were deleted and resubmitted later to apply the revised fee rates. In this month, there was a clawback of some payments and most of these clawbacks are excluded from this report and with the data reported against the resubmission. But during this period, there were some manual adjustments that may not all be reflected in the itemised records.

Payment data includes payments made and any scheduled for payment in the future.

Payments comprise of an Item of Service fee and a supplementary fee where applicable. Payments do not relate to the value of the drugs dispensed.

For doses administered between September 2021 and January 2022, there was a range of late notice fee rate changes. Over this time, the pre-established rates were claimed and paid as normal. Top up payments were made later in February, March and May 2022 to bring the total paid to that implied by the late notice fee rate changes. These top ups were calculated separately, but they did not require a new submission - so these have been reported against the original submission date for the dose that would have led to the standard payment. These top up payments are shown as 'Ancillary Payment Amount GBP'.

The total used for the payment calculation may not match the totals shown in 'live' POC systems or MYS that continue to receive updates after the snapshot used to calculate payments was taken.

Vaccination records are limited to those which have been associated with a declaration submission. This may include late submission declarations received after the deadline for declarations such records are not processed until the next month. This report may include claims for tokens that have exceeded the applicable grace period (currently 3 months) at the time they were processed; such doses will not be included in the payment. This report does not include data for doses claimed after the 15-day period between date supplied and date recorded in the point of care system.

Please note that some vaccinations attract a supplementary fee, so it is not possible to determine the number of vaccinations by dividing the total paid by the basic Item of Service (IoS) fee.

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02220

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2024” Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.