Dataset Description

The Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) is a component of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF).

PQS aims to support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan by rewarding community pharmacies for meeting quality criteria in three key areas:

• Clinical effectiveness
• Patient safety
• Patient experience

The PQS for 2023/24 comprises three quality domains:

• Medicines Safety and Optimisation
• Prevention
• Respiratory

The datasets hosted on the Open Data Portal (ODP) relate to these quality domains. Each dataset includes a list of pharmacies eligible for a PQS payment on 1 April 2024. Eligibility is based on pharmacies meeting the gateway criteria and the requirements of at least one quality domain.

The datasets provide pharmacies’ responses to the PQS declaration questions as entered in Manage Your Service (MYS). However, not all questions from the declaration are included in the datasets. Each file's accompanying data dictionary outlines the included questions, and all questions from the 2023/24 PQS declaration are available in the document PQS Questions 2023-2024.xlsx.

For further information about PQS 2023/24, please contact pharmacysupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk.

Service Overview

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/provider-assurance-pharmaceutical-services/pharmacy-quality-scheme-pqs

Data Source

The data originates from Manage Your Service (MYS). Provider Assurance Analysts process the data into three quality domains, check for discrepancies, and prepare CSV files and data dictionaries for publication on the Open Data Portal.

Data Collection

Pharmacy contractors answer a series of questions across the three quality domains, and this data is submitted via MYS.

Time Period

Inclusive of: 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

Geography

England.

Caveats

‘N/A’ is used in the data for when a question was not asked; each contractor will follow a questions pathway, the next question will depend on how they’ve answered previous questions so not all questions will therefore be asked.

Only ‘YES/NO’ questions are being reported due to information governance.

Citation

NHS Business Services Authority. "Pharmacy Quality Scheme Data 2023/24" NHS Business Services Authority Open Data. Accessed [Date Accessed]. URL: opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/pharmacy-quality-scheme-data-2023-24