Indicative rates announced for two more national enhanced services for Wales
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Supply of an injecting kit will attract a fee of £1.54 in
Wales |
Indicative
rates for two further national enhanced services for Wales have been set, Community Pharmacy Wales announced this week.
From January 2007, supervised administration of medicines and syringe
and needle exchange will join care home support services, minor ailment
services and pharmaceutical rota services as the enhanced services for
which national indicative rates have been
negotiated.
The agreed annual fee for syringe and needle exchange schemes is £146.63
and the fee per injecting kit supplied is £1.54. Vaccinations for
pharmacy staff providing the service should be arranged or reimbursed
by local health boards. Supervised administration of medicines will attract
a monthly fee of £48.46 for methadone and £65.20 for Subutex
(buprenorphine).
As with the first three
enhanced service indicative rates announced in
July (PJ, 29 July, p125), CPW emphasises that where a service differs
from that described in the national enhanced service specification, the
service will be considered a locally revised enhanced service. Remuneration
rates will then have to be agreed between the local health board and
the appropriate CPW regional committee using Pharmaceutical Services
Negotiating Committee and CPW guidance. |
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