Monthly Archives: March 2017

The April review date for the Quality Payments Scheme is fast approaching and the NHS Business Services Portal for the Quality Payment online declaration is due to open in just under a fortnight. Many community pharmacy contractors are well on their way to meeting the gateway criteria and some if not all the quality criteria...

This PSNC Briefing provides a list of all the PSNC resources available to community pharmacy contractors to assist them with meeting the gateway and quality criteria of the Quality Payments Scheme. PSNC Briefing 018/17: Quality Payments – PSNC resources If you have any queries on this PSNC Briefing or you require more information, please contact Zainab...

This PSNC Briefing provides an overview of how to achieve the Directory of Services (DoS) quality criterion of the Quality Payments (QP) Scheme. Further information on the QP Scheme can be found in PSNC Briefing 013/17: Quality Payments – what pharmacy contractors need to do. PSNC Briefing 017/17: Quality Payments – how to meet the...

The team at PSNC has been receiving a number of queries on the Quality Payments Scheme; below are some of the questions asked over the last week. If a quality criterion, which can be claimed twice, was not claimed at the April 2017 review point can it be claimed twice at the November 2017 review...

The £200 SCR allowance must be claimed by 31st March 2017; a claim for payment is made automatically if your pharmacy accesses an SCR, using either a test NHS number  or accessing a ‘real’ patient’s SCR. If a member of staff from your pharmacy has attended a Summary Care Record (SCR) event, and the SCR checklist...