Request

You asked us:

The number of COVID vaccinations carried out and payments made for these vaccinations to individual pharmacies, listed by their ODS code and with full postal address details.

Could you provide the data for the month of December 2024 in EXCEL format please.

The data should be:

Column1--Administration Month 
Column2--ODS Code 
Column3--Pharmacy Name 
Column4--Pharmacy Trading Name 
Column5--Pharmacy Address 
Column6--Pharmacy Post Code 
Column7-- Number of Vaccinations Claimed 
Column8--Number of Vaccinations Paid 
Column9--Payment Amount GB

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 20 January 2025.

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

Our response

I can confirm that we hold the information you have requested, and a copy of the information is attached.

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

We calculate payments for covid vaccinations to pharmacies and Primary Care Network groupings in England. Each month, vaccine providers submit claims to request payment based on the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Service COVID-19 vaccination programme’s specification (the service specification). Data included in this request is limited to vaccinations carried out by pharmacies only. Data included in this request is also limited to vaccinations administered in December 2024. The vaccine data is the latest held in the NHSBSA Data Warehouse. Pharmacy names and address details held in NHSBSA systems are as of Thursday 23 January 2025.

Payments comprise an Item of Service (IoS) fee and potentially a Supplementary fee. Payments do not relate to the value of the drugs dispensed.

Payment data includes payments made and those scheduled for payment in the future. Scheduled payments are provisional and may be subject to change before being made.

The total used for the payment calculation may not match the totals shown in 'live' Point of Care systems or our Manage Your Service portal that continues to receive updates after the snapshot used to calculate payments was taken.

Please note that some vaccinations attract a supplementary fee. This means that it is not possible to determine the number of vaccinations by dividing the total paid by the basic IoS fee.

This data does not include any adjustments made by our Provider Assurance team as part of any post payment verification exercise. These adjustments are made at account level and may relate to several months of activity.

New records from old administration months can be entered in the future. This means that the totals provided for each administration month could change when more data is processed.

The columns provided are:

Administration Month - this is the month when the vaccine was administered to the patient.

ODS Code - the code from the NHS Organisation Data Service (ODS) for the pharmacy which administered the vaccine to the patient

Pharmacy Name - as held in NHSBSA systems as at the date given above.

Pharmacy Trading Name - as held in NHSBSA systems as at the date given above.

Pharmacy Address - as held in NHSBSA systems as at the date given above.

Pharmacy Post Code - as held in NHSBSA systems as at the date given above.

Number of Pharmacy Vaccinations Claimed - vaccinations administered in the requested period that have been included associated with a fee claim submission.

Number of Pharmacy Vaccinations Provisionally Paid - vaccinations administered in the requested period that were associated with a fee claim submission and were scheduled for payment according to the service specification at the time that the claim was processed.

Provisional Payment Amount GBP - the calculated payment amount scheduled to be paid.

Data Queries

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Reusing the data and copyright

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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 Open Government Licence’s terms 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 2025”. This is because this information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

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

Failure to do so is a breach of the licence’s terms.

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.