Scottish contractors to receive one-off public health service payment

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7493 p299
15 March 2008

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Scottish contractors to receive one-off public health service payment

Community pharmacy contractors in Scotland are to receive a one-off supplementary payment of almost £950 next month for work already carried out as part of tier two of the public health service, which involves displaying public health campaign material in the window of their pharmacies.

An NHS circular (PDF 50K), published this week, explains that originally it had been planned for one campaign to take place each quarter but that four campaigns have been fitted into the nine months since July 2007. Therefore, the circular states: “It has been agreed that public health service payments for 2007–08 will be reset as if public health service had been in place for a full year.”

Eligible contractors will receive a one-off payment of £942.89 with their payment for February dispensing (to be paid in April 2008).

ePharmacy funding Details of how and when ePharmacy infrastructure funding will be paid were also published by the Scottish Government this week (PDF 70K).

The payments (£100 per month plus an initial £250) are for installing and maintaining software to support the electronic acute medication service (eAMS).

The additional payment for processing prescriptions electronically (eClaim) will be calculated automatically from ePharmacy Message Store data and be reported on the monthly remuneration report from the Practitioner Services Division.