Useful Links and Information
This page includes general resources for community pharmacies that we think you might find useful. If you have any suggestions, please let us know!
The complete routine immunisation schedule from Jan 2025 ITEM 7A
Childhood Imms A5 Postcard ITEM 7b
You do not have to pay for prescriptions if you:
get or are included in an award of someone getting (see also page 10-11): – Income Support; – Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance; – Income-related Employment and Support Allowance; – Universal Credit and you had no earnings or net earnings of £435 or less during the most recent assessment period (£935 if you had a child element or had limited capability for work) (see page 11-12); Note: contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance or contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance on their own do not entitle you to free NHS prescriptions.
https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2024-05/HC12%20%28V20%29%2005.2024.pdf
More information on CPE here.
Part XIVC of the Drug Tariff sets out the temporary safeguarding payment arrangements put in place where a pharmacy contractor’s dispensing business is adversely affected if prescribers systematically increase prescription duration on all or a significant percentage of their prescription items, due to direct or indirect instigation by the CCG. This could lead to dispensing contractors facing increased supplier bills in certain months (as more medicines are dispensed per prescription than usual) and then decreased prescription item volume in subsequent months.
