FOI-02641

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

You asked us: 

‘The number of COVID vaccinations carried out and payments made for these vaccinations to individual pharmacies, listed by their ODS code and with full postal address details. 

Could you provide the data for the month of February 2025 in EXCEL format please. 

The data should be: 

Column1--Administration Month 

Column2--ODS Code 

Column3--Pharmacy Name 

Column4--Pharmacy Trading Name 

Column5--Pharmacy Address 

Column6--Pharmacy Post Code 

Column7-- Number of Vaccinations Claimed 

Column8--Number of Vaccinations Paid 

Column9--Payment Amount GB’ 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on Friday 7 March 2025.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

##Our response 

I can confirm that we hold the information you have requested and a copy of the information and notes explaining this is attached. 

Please read the notes to ensure your correct understanding of the data. 

We calculate payments for COVID-19 vaccinations to pharmacies and Primary Care Network (PCN) groupings in England. Each month, vaccine providers submit claims to request payment based on the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Service COVID-19 vaccination programme specification ('the service specification'). 

Data included in this request is: 

limited to vaccinations carried out by pharmacies only 

limited to vaccinations administered in February 2025 

The vaccine data is the latest held in the NHSBSA Data Warehouse. Pharmacy names and address details are as held in NHSBSA systems as of Wednesday 12 March 2025. 

Payments comprise an Item of Service (IoS) fee and potentially a Supplementary fee. Payments do not relate to the value of the drugs dispensed. 

Payment data includes payments made and those scheduled for payment in the future. Scheduled payments are provisional and may be subject to change before being made. 

The total used for the payment calculation may not match the totals shown in 'live' Point of Care (POC) systems or Manage Your Service (MYS) that continue to receive updates after the snapshot used to calculate payments was taken. 

Please note that some vaccinations attract a supplementary fee, so it is not possible to determine the number of vaccinations by dividing the total paid by the basic IoS fee. 

This data does not include any adjustments made by NHSBSA Provider Assurance as part of any post payment verification exercise. These adjustments are made at account level and may relate to several months of activity. 

You should note that new records from old administration months can be submitted to the NHSBSA by the contractor for processing. This means that the totals listed for each administration month could change when more data is processed. 

The columns provided are: 

Administration Month - the month in which the vaccine was administered to the patient. 

ODS Code - the code from the NHS Organisation Data Service (ODS) for the pharmacy which administered the vaccine to the patient. 

Pharmacy Name - as held in NHSBSA systems as of 12 March 2025. 

Pharmacy Trading Name - as held in NHSBSA systems as of 12 March 2025 

Pharmacy Address - as held in NHSBSA systems as of 12 March 2025. 

Pharmacy Post Code - as held in NHSBSA systems as of 12 March 2025. 

Number of Pharmacy Vaccinations Claimed - vaccinations administered in the requested period that have been included associated with a fee claim submission. 

Number of Pharmacy Vaccinations Provisionally Paid - vaccinations administered in the requested period that were associated with a fee claim submission and were scheduled for payment according to the service specification at the time that the claim was processed.  

Provisional Payment Amount GBP - the calculated payment amount scheduled to be paid. 

##Data Queries 

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data, please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Data Warehouse, NHSBSA Copyright 2025” Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence. 

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information. 

Tags: COVID-19 vaccinations, Covid payments
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