NHS BSA

BSA report shows closures rose while items fell during the worst months of Covid.

Contractors can receive advance payment 20 days earlier on scripts dispensed from October onwards

Antidiabetic prescribing rises by more than a fifth in England in five years.

Antidepressant drugs were prescribed to more than twice as many people in the most deprived parts of England compared to the least in 2020-21. 

Pharmacy bodies have reacted largely positively to the improved terms offered for the reimbursement of Covid costs for pharmacies in England 

Massive price hikes to the antidepressant saw the NHS spend over six times more on the drug in 2020-21 compared to the previous year. 

The future of the Pharmacy Earlier Payment Scheme is "under consideration," the PSNC has said.

Exclusive: The use of SSPs is rising rapidly according to data released under the Freedom of Information Act. 

Over three-quarters of pharmacy organisations are now able to access real time exemption checking.

The NHS is writing to 44 pharmacies in England over their 'unexpectedly' high payment claims for delivering medicines during the pandemic.   

NHS BSA is in talks with the Government to protect the Pharmacy Earlier Payment Scheme as finance company Greensill faces collapse. 

DHSC will advise which wholesalers have been allocated stock via the NHSBSA website.

The number of community pharmacies in England dropped to its lowest level in five years by the end of March 2020.

NHS BSA has announced it will stop issuing print editions of the Drug Tariff from April next year, and will instead move to digital only.

Schedule of Payment updated to include SSP and new CPCF payments.