Request

Please provide details of the money that has been paid to GP practices and PCNs for administering the covid 19 vaccine to date.

Provide the name and address of establishment and money paid.

Please provide information for the most recent data you hold and specify the time period that it covers.

Response

Exact Amount Paid

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority.

Advice and Assistance

NHSBSA does not directly arrange to make payments to Primary Care Network (PCN) providers. This means we do not hold data on exact amounts paid to each provider.

The NHSBSA calculates payments for Covid vaccinations to Pharmacies and Primary Care Network (PCN) providers in England.

The final payment amounts for each account would have been sent to Primary Care Support England (PCSE) to make the payments as soon as possible after that date.

We do hold information on the amount which the NHSBSA calculated, and which was sent to PCSE. This information was provided in response to a recent FOI request. This information can be found at the below web link:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02264

This dataset provides the payment amounts we calculated between Feb-21 and Sep-24 (the latest information held at the time of the request).

Name and Address

Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The Organisational Data Service (ODS) codes for the practices are provided at the above web link.

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   

The dataset which you can use is titled “epraccur”. Alternatively, you can use other ODS tools such as ODS portal search or ODS data point.   Exact Payment Information

NHS England may hold some or all of the information you require on the exact amount paid. They can be contacted at:

NHS England

PO Box 16738

Redditch

B97 9PT

Telephone 0300 311 22 33

Email: england.contactus@nhs.net

Web http://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/foi/