Request

Hello, Could I please request in a spreadsheet format Manage Your Service (MYS) claims for pharmacies. Could the information please be presented with a separate row for each ODS code and each month. Could I please request this to cover from March 2022 up to and including the most recent month for which data is available.

Your request was then clarified with:

Could I please request the below data which is submitted as part of the FP34C submission, those fields are as follows: • F-Code/ODS code • Submission month • Total Forms • Total Items • NMS

Response

March-July 2022 Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.

These fields are available at: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-27738

The information can be found in the following columns:

F-Code/ODS code column A Submission month month of file Total Forms column J Total Items column AD NMS column AC

August – September 2022

A copy of the information is attached

NHSBSA

NHS 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.

Data source

Source System - ISP (National MIS Files)

Time period

August & September 2022

The month refers to the month of the report. Please note Appliance Contractors data within the MIS Report shows data for the following month. (E.g. MIS Report for August 2022 will show September 2022 Appliance Contractor data).

This dataset

FOI29892 has 2 files –August & September 2022 MIS Pharmacy.

This report consists of a management information file detailing monthly Community Pharmacy and Appliance Payments by type of payment and contractor account. Payments include all drug costs, fees, patient charges, locally authorised payments, etc. Other details such as the numbers of items dispensed, patient’s charges collected are also included.

The management information file reflects the contractor's payment and prescription data associated with the Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) structure at the relevant payment date.

The data contained within the files can be interpreted correctly by using the ‘MIS Glossary’ available under ‘Management Information Spreadsheet (MIS) Report’ at

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/information-services-portal-isp/isp-report-information .

Other availability

MYS data also feeds into the Dispensing data and Pharmacy and appliance contractor dispensing data, available at:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/prescription-data/dispensing-data/dispensing-contractors-data

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

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-27754