Request

Dear Sirs, may I request the following data for all pharmacies laid out as in fields as shown for the AGGREGATE 12 month period from 01 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 (inclusive) Thank you for your assistance.

Field 1 Contractor Code

Field 2 Contractor Name

Field 3 Contractor OWNER name

Field 4 Contract STP

Field 5 Contractor Address

Field 6 Contractor Postcode

Field 7 Total Number items submitted for payment Standard in period

Field 8 Total Number items submitted for payment ZERO in period

Field 9 Total Number items submitted for payment Standard plus Zero in period

Field 10 Net ingredient cost for period

Field 11 Total Number (not £) of Medicine Use Reviews paid in period

Field 12 Total Number (not £) of New Medicine Service paid in period

Field 13 Total Payment RENUMERATION made for period

Field 14 Total Payment DRUG reimbursement made for period

Response

A copy of the information is attached.

Time Period - April 2020 to March 2021

The NHSBSA Prescription Services process prescriptions for Pharmacy Contractors, Appliance Contractors, Dispensing Doctors, and Personal Administration with information then used to make payments to pharmacists and appliance contractors in England for prescriptions dispensed in primary care settings (other arrangements are in place for making payments to Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration). This involves processing over 1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year. The information gathered from this process is then used to provide information on costs and trends in prescribing in England and Wales to over 25,000 registered NHS and Department of Health and Social Care users.

This dataset is limited to items dispensed by English Pharmacies.

Items shows the number of times a product appears on a prescription form not the quantity prescribed.

Net Ingredient cost (NIC) is the basic price of a drug as stated in Part II Clause 8 of the Drug Tariff; please note that where a price concession for items listed in Part VIIIA of the Drug Tariff has been agreed between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, the NIC will reflect the concession price rather than the Drug Tariff price.

All data is based on dispensed prescription items that were processed by the NHSBSA, not including items not dispensed, disallowed, or returned. Also excluding items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-24394

Data Queries

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 Information Services Data Warehouse, NHSBSA Copyright 2022” 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 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.