FOI-15939

##Request

Hello, thank you for fulfilling my previous request at https://applications.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/FOI/foiRequestDetail.do?bo_id=11719. Could I please request the same data, but for any newer months for which data is available? i.e. January, February, March and April 2021

##Response

A copy of the information is attached.

There is a completed file for each month. FOI8592 has 2 files (February 2019 and March 2019)

Source System – ISP (National MIS Files)

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 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 sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) 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 .

The data in column METHADONE PAYMT and ADD FEE-2E within the Pharmacy dataset have been removed following Information Governance policy.

Appliance Contractors data within the MIS- Report shows data for the following month. (E.g. MIS-Report for January 19 will show February 19 Appliance Contractor data).  

Previous requests and months provided – please add new requests to this. 

FOI	Months provided																						
																								
7005	Jun-15	Jul-15	Aug-15	Sep-15	Oct-15	Nov-15	Dec-15	Jan-16	Feb-16	Mar-16	Apr-16	May-16	Jun-16	Jul-16	Aug-16	Sep-16	Oct-16	Nov-16	Dec-16	Jan-17	Feb-17	Mar-17	Apr-17	May-17

7516	Jun-17	Jul-17	Aug-17	Sep-17	Oct-17	Nov-17	Dec-17																	
7652	Jan-18	Feb-18																						
8037	Mar-18	Apr-18	May-18	Jun-18	Jul-18																			
8251	Aug-18	Sep-18	Oct-18																					
8428	Nov-18	Dec-18	Jan-19																					
8592	Feb-19	Mar-19																						
8657	Apr-19	May-19																						
8806	Jun-19	Jul-19																						
8956	Aug-19	Sep-19	Oct-19																					
9071	Nov-19	Dec-19																						
9169	Jan-20	Feb-20																						
9226	Mar-20																							
10290	Apr-20																							
10416	May-20	Jun-20																						
10442	Jul-20																							
11545	Aug-20																							
11591	Sep-20																							
11645	Oct-20	Nov-20	

11719	Dec-20																					

11794 	Feb-14 Mar-14 Apr-14 May-14 Jun-14 Jul-14 Aug-14 Sep-14 Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14 Jan-15 Feb-15 Mar-15 Apr-15 May-15 Jun-15 Jul-15 Aug-15 Sep-15 Oct-15 Nov-15 Dec-15 Jan-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Apr-16 May-16 Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-16 Oct-16 Nov-16 Dec-16
(some months provided again as both IG and requestor didn’t keep them). 

15939 	Jan-21 Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-015939


Tags: NHS Prescriptions
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log