Request

Please supply the number of COVID-19 vaccines carried out in England per individual pharmacy per month in December 2021. For example dispenser code FFFFF administered X vaccines in December

Response

A copy of the information is attached. Please ensure you read the below in full, to ensure there are no misunderstandings around what the data means. This also explains the terms used.

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

Covid vaccination data is keyed in via Point of Care (POC) Systems and they 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 such claims must be submitted during a specified declaration submission period. Should claims be submitted outside the time windows, payments will be made later. This means that in some cases there is a difference between the number of vaccines that have been 'claimed' and the number that have been 'paid'.

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

When considering the nature of the vaccine data there are several ways it can be reported over time:

Administration Month

This is the month in which the vaccine was administered to the patient.

Payment Month

This is the month in which the payment was made dispenser of the vaccine. Note that all payments for Pharmacies are paid one month later than those for PCN providers.

Keying Month

This is the month in which the vaccine record first appeared on the MYS system.

Submission/Claim Month

This is the month in which the claim for payment for a vaccination occurred.

For example, suppose that a PCN patient is given a covid vaccination dose 1 in January (Administration Month) and then the paper record of this is misplaced for a while. The record is found and keyed into a POC system during February (Keying Month). The Provider is allowed to claim for keying during February in the first 5 days of March, but they're a little late and authorise the claim on the 7th of March (Submission Month) As the claim is outside the submission window it is not paid in March, it will instead be paid during April (Payment Month).

Another example could be a Pharmacy patient given a covid vaccination dose 1 in January (Administration Month), keyed in January (Keying Month), then submitted in February (Submission Month) and then payments are calculated in February, however as this is for a pharmacy the payments are held back and not paid until March (Payment Month).

For the purposes of this request, we have chosen to report by Administration Month.

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 2021

The latest data used is a snapshot of the MYS system data that was taken on 7th January 2022. This is the snapshot of data taken after the January submission period that was used to calculate payments

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.

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.

It is possible for new records from old administration months to be entered in the future, thus the totals here for each administration months could change when more data is processed. If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing the data, please contact dataandinsightsupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

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

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