Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

You asked us:

‘Pharmacy First initial fixed payments of £2000. Can you provide data relating to all pharmacy practices indicating if they met the criteria for receiving the £2000 fixed payment or not?’

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 6 March 2026.

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

Our response

Under FOIA Section 21, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.

The information you requested is available on our Open Data Portal:

December 2023

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02908

January and February 2024

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01916

March 2024

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02117

To view FOIA section 21 in full: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

Advice and assistance

To locate the requested information, column GR within the MIS Pharmacy data - (PF_INITIAL_FIXED_PAYMENT) indicates which contractors received the £2000 fixed payment for meeting the relevant criteria during that month.