Request

Please provide by pharmacy listing the Name, Address, Postcode and ODS code for each pharmacy, the number of claims made to the NHS BSA and the payment made to individual pharmacy contractors for the Pharmacy First service separated for urgent repeat medicines supply, minor illness consultations and Clinical Pathways consultations, set up fees and the £1000 monthly payment.

Please send this grouped by ICB

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on Friday 7 January 2025.

On Saturday 8 January 2025 you added the following:

Please send this information grouped by ICB.

We then requested clarification on Tuesday 21 January 2025:

I would, therefore, be grateful if you would help us with the following queries:

1) The original request asks for a breakdown by pharmacy. However, your email on Wednesday 8 January 2025 states you want this grouped by ICB. Please can you confirm which of these you would like?

2) Please can you also confirm the date range for the request? Please note that October 2024 is our most recent data set.

You responded with the below on Tuesday 21 January 2025:

1) By pharmacy, with pharmacies grouped by ICB.

2) All payments made after Tuesday 1 September 2023 as originally stated. If there is no data, please provide months where there is data up to the most recent data set available.

Response

Number of Claims:

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 number of claims made to the NHSBSA can be found by accessing the following link:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/prescription-data/dispensing-data/dispensing-contractors-data

To locate the data:

Under the subheading 'Reports', expand the 'Pharmacy and appliance contractor dispensing data' section

Select one of the files (e.g. Oct 2024 (2.4MB)) and open the dataset

This is broken down by contractor, as per the request.

The request asked for the number of claims for 'urgent repeat medicines supply, minor illness consultations and Clinical Pathways consultations'.

This dataset contains the following columns: 'NumberofPharmacyFirstUrgentMedicineSupplyConsultations' 'NumberofPharmacyFirstMinorIllnessReferralConsultations' 'NumberofPharmacyFirstClinicalPathwaysConsultations-' for each of the common conditions

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full –

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

Remaining Data

I can confirm that we hold the remaining information you have requested and a copy of the information and notes explaining this is attached.

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

Data Source The data source was the NHSBSA Information Services Data Warehouse.

Time period The time period covered is September 2023 to October 2024.

Organisation Data The organisation data is limited to pharmacies in England and presented at dispensing level

The data shows payment information for Pharmacy First (PF) services including: • initial fixed payments • payments for Clinical Pathways (CP) • payments for Minor Illness (MI) • payments for Urgent Repeat Medicine Supply (UMS)

The most recent copy of the Management Information Spreadsheets (MIS) glossary has been included should any further definitions be required.

All payment information is in Great British Pounds (GBP).

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-02492

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please email 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 email 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: “Data Warehouse, NHSBSA Copyright 2025” 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.