Request

The Temporary Safeguarding Payments paid to individual pharmacies from January 2019 to the current date by month. This information listed by their ODS code and with the pharmacies post codes. Want this information in excel and in the following format:

Column 1 – Date (Month/Year)

Column 2 – Pharmacy Name

Column 3 – ODS Code

Column 4 – Pharmacy Group Name

Column 5 – Postcode

Column 6 – Safeguarding Payment Paid

Response

A copy of the information is attached.

The data provided covers payments made between January 2019 - February 2022. February 2022 being the most recent month available.

Definitions

Payment Date

The date that the contractors were paid.

Please note - There were no payments made in January 2019, previous payment was made on 31st December 2018

Schedule Date

The date that the payments relate to, recorded as YYYYMM.

Please note - Due to the time taken to submit, process and make payments, the payment date is approximately two months after the activities for which the payments relate.

Group Code - An internal code to uniquely identify the groups.

Group Name - the group to which the NHSBSA records have the contractor as currently belonging to.

If the Group Name is empty, this means that there is no record of a current group for that contractor.

Temporary Safeguarding Payment Amount - The amount of money in GBP paid to the contractor as per Part XIVC of the drug tariff - Temporary Safeguarding Payments https://www.drugtariff.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/#/00814419-DC/DC00813714/Part%20XIVC%20-%20Devolving%20the%20Global%20Sum%20-%20Temporary%20Safeguarding%20Payments

The NHSBSA have never received/processed a claim type 1 – additional advance. All temporary safeguarding claims made have been type 2 – claim for loss of items

Note that a negative figure indicates money deducted from the contractor. This is the result of an unsuccessful claim.

Due to Covid-19, July 2020 submissions (Payment Date 01 October 2020) were the last where negative payments were calculated against pharmacies making unsuccessful claims.

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.

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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 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: “NHSBSA DPC Database, NHSBSA Copyright 2022” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

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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.