Payment type	Claim method (deadline to claim for payment)	Payment due	Payment amount	How payment will appear on the Schedule of Payments under section of ‘Details of other amounts authorised’
Appliance Use Review (AUR)	MYS	Monthly	£25 –  AUR conducted on pharmacy premises £54 – AUR carried out in a patient’s home	‘Appliance use reviews carried out at patients home’ ‘Appliance use reviews carried out at premises’ under section titled ‘Prescription Fees’
Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)	MYS (by the 5th day of the following month)	Monthly	£14 (no VAT applicable) for each completed referral	‘CPCS Remuneration Payment’
COVID-19 Vaccinations	MYS	Monthly	£12.58 is paid for each vaccination given Additional £10.00 payment per vaccine for housebound and care home patients	‘Covid Vaccine Claim’
Discharge Medicines Service (DMS)	MYS	Monthly		‘Discharge Medicine Review Fee’
Flu Vaccination Service	MYS (claims for the 2021/22 flu season will be accepted by the NHSBSA within six months of administration of the vaccination or by 31st August 2022, whichever date is earlier)	Monthly	£9.58 for each vaccine administered and The basic price (list price) of the individual vaccine administered and an allowance at the applicable VAT rate.	‘Flu Remuneration Payment’ for fees ‘Flu Reimbursement Payment’ for the cost of the vaccines
Hepatitis C Testing Service	MYS (by the 5th day of the following month after completion of a test)	Monthly in the same payment month as other payments for NHS Pharmaceutical Services. This service will continue until 31st March 2023	£36 per test performed	‘Hep C Provision of Testing Service’
Hepatitis C Testing Service – Point of Care Test (POCT) kit	MYS (by the 5th day of the following month after completion of a test)	Monthly in the same payment month as other payments for NHS Pharmaceutical Services. This service will continue until 31st March 2023	Cost of the POCT kit at manufacturer’s list price + VAT	‘Hep C Test Kit Reimbursement’
Hypertension Case-Finding Service	MYS	Monthly	£440 set-up fee (one-off payment) £15 for each clinic check £45 for each ambulatory monitoring An incentive fee of £1,000 will be available if 5 ABPM interventions are provided in 2021/22. This will change in 2022/23	‘CVD Hypertension set up fee’ ‘CVD Hypertension Incentive’ ‘CVD Hypertension check and ABPM fee’
New Medicine Service (NMS)	MYS (by the 5th day of the following month)	Monthly	Between £20 and £28 for each completed NMS provided depending on the total number of patients who receive the service in the month and whether any target has been achieved based on the monthly prescription volume of the pharmacy	‘New medicine service’ under section titled ‘Prescription Fees’
Smoking Cessation Service (SCS)	An interim process will be in place until an API is available – further information on this process is available on the NHSBSA website.	Monthly	A set-up fee of £1,000 payable following registration on MYS to provide the service, including a declaration of readiness to provide the service.  For each patient a fee for:  the first consultation of £30;  each interim consultation of £10; and  the last consultation of £40 (the last consultation may be at any point from and including the 4-week review up until the 12-week review).  The products that may be supplied as part of this service are listed in the Drug Tariff Determination and only those products listed will be eligible for payment. The indicative reimbursement price will be the NHS list price of the reference product on the 8th of the month before. An allowance at the applicable VAT rate will be paid to cover the VAT incurred when purchasing the product supplied. The indicative price for reimbursement for each product that can be supplied as part of this service is based on a reference product as set out in the list available on the NHSBSA website..	‘SCS Set-up’ ‘SCS Consultations’ ‘SCS NRT Product cost (this will include the VAT element)’ ‘SCS NRT Product charges’
Stoma Appliance Customisation (SAC)	Automatically based on qualifying Part IXC Drug Tariff products	Monthly	£4.32 is paid per qualifying* Part IXC item dispensed, regardless of whether customisation was required	Payment will be listed as ‘Stoma customisation’ under section titled ‘Prescription Fees’

*Excludes distance -selling pharmacies

Services where the claim deadline has expired

Payment type	Payment due	Payment amount	How payment will appear on the Schedule of Payments under section of ‘Details of other amounts authorised’
COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device Distribution Service	This service has now ended. Claims will be accepted via MYS  until 30th April 2022; this includes any distributions made in February 2022 that contractors may not have claimed for at the beginning of March 2022	From 4th October 2021 onwards £1.70 + an allowance for VAT per transaction – where a collect code has been provided OR £1.20 + an allowance for VAT per transaction using the anonymous collection route	‘COVID Testing Kit’
		Up until and including 3rd October 2021 £1.50 + an allowance for VAT per transaction
Pandemic Delivery Service (Advanced service)*	The service ended on 31st March 2022.  Contractors have until 5th April 2022 to claim payment	£6 (including VAT) per delivery	Payment will be listed as ‘Additional advance payment’ under section titled ‘Summary of Payment Amounts’
Pandemic Delivery Service (Essential service)*	Monthly Self-isolating patients only (from 1st April 2021 onwards) as confirmed by NHS Test and Trace (for the 10-day self-isolation period). This service will continue until 31st March 2022		Paid on the same line as ‘Transitional Payment’. It will show as a total figure
COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device Distribution Service – Set-Up Fee	Before the service ended on 31st March 2022	£250 + VAT	‘COVID Test Kit Set up Fee’
Pharmacy Quality Scheme 2021/22	1st April 2022	Maximum value of £135.50 per point Minimum value of £67.75 per point  Points based system dependent on: their total prescription volume in 2020/21; which Domains are claimed for; and whether they are a PCN lead or non-PCN lead.	‘Pharmacy Quality Scheme’
Pharmacy Quality Scheme 2021/22 – Aspiration payment	1st December 2021	70% of the number of points within the band in which contractors are placed (the Aspiration Payment does not include the extra points that can be earned for being the Pharmacy PCN Lead). The value of each point for the aspiration payment is set at £67.75 (i.e. the minimum value of a point for PQS 2021/22). NHSBSA has published a spreadsheet detailing the banding that pharmacies have been put into for PQS 2021/22	‘Pharmacy Quality Scheme’
Pharmacy Earlier Payment Scheme (PEPS) – transitional arrangements	1st November 2021 – Bridging payment 1st December 2021 – recovery of bridging payment starts (this is spread over 11 months)	1st November 2021 – One-off bridging payment based on 92% of the final PEPS payment received on 1st October 2021 1st December 2021 – 30th September 2022 – one-off bridging payment recovered in equal parts over 11 months	Bridging payment will be paid directly to PEPS contractors and will not appear on the Schedule of Payments Bridging payment recovery – ‘PEPS Transition Recovery’
COVID-19 Costs (incurred between 1 March 2020 – 31 March 2021 for the delivery of NHS pharmaceutical services)	1st October 2021	Contractors could claim for the following: 1. Additional staff costs due to COVID-19 2. Costs incurred to make premises COVID-19 secure 3. IT and communication costs to support home working and virtual patient contact; and 4. Notified closures for infection control purposes (maximum 14 days)	Reimbursement will appear as: ‘Reimbursement of Covid-19 costs’ Adjustment will appear as: ‘Reimbursement of Covid-19 costs adj’ Recovery will appear as: ‘Recovery of 20/21 Covid-19 Cash Advance’
CPCS –GP referral pathway engagement and set up	Payments depended on when the claim was submitted by a contractor and processed and verified by the NHSBSA	£300 engagement and setup payment if contractors undertook a range of actions to get ready for rolling out the referral pathway in their area by 30th June 2021	‘GP Referral Pathway Engagement Fee’
COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device Distribution Service Early Sign-Up Fee	Registrations made from 29th March – 31st March 2021 were paid on 1st June 2021. Registrations made from 1st – 18th April 2021 were paid on 1st July 2021	£200 + VAT Early sign-up fee (providing contractor signed up before 11:59pm on 18th April 2021)	COVID Test Kit Registration Fee
Pandemic Delivery Service (Essential service)*	Monthly – the service was extended until 31st March 2021 for all clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients living in England		Paid on the same line as ‘Transitional Payment’. It will show as a total figure
Pandemic Delivery Service (Essential service)*	Monthly – service extended until 31st March for all clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients living in England	Payment bands up to end of February 2021	Paid on the same line as ‘Transitional Payment’. It will show as a total figure
Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2020/21 Part 2	1st April 2021	The funding was divided between qualifying pharmacies based on the number of points they have achieved up to a maximum £96 per point. Each point had a minimum value of £48, based on all pharmacy contractors achieving maximum points	‘Total of other amounts authorised’
Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) set up fee	1st April 2021	Set-up fee of £400 covered the costs of preparing to provide the service, principally training staff and putting in place a standard operating procedure for the service. Any pharmacy on the pharmaceutical list on 1st February 2021 automatically received this payment	‘Discharge Medicine Review Fee’
PPE claims (standard)	PPE claims (standard) Payments depended on when the claim was submitted by a contractor and processed and verified by the NHSBSA. November 2020 Schedule of Payments which was paid on 1st February 2021 was the first available Schedule to include payments for PPE		‘PPE Claims’
PPE claims (exceptional)	As above	Depends on amounts claimed	‘PPE Claims’

Pharmacy teams should note that from November 2021, all community pharmacy contractors will have the chance to receive earlier advance payments, following agreement between PSNC and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).  Advance payments will be made approximately 20 days earlier than the current payment timetable for contractors who make their monthly FP34C submissions through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal by the 5th of the month.

The 100% advance payments (for early and current timetables) will continue to be based on the items declared on the FP34C and the latest available Average Item Value (AIV) for that pharmacy, less the value of prescription charges declared on the submission document. Contractors using MYS for submissions must print off the populated FP34C from the portal and dispatch it alongside their bundle of paper prescriptions. No advance payment will be received for very late FP34C submissions (using either MYS or paper). The final reconciliation payment date remains unchanged i.e. this will be paid on the 1st working day of the month approximately two months after contractors have submitted the appropriate FP34C form and prescriptions for pricing.

The timeline on the below illustrates how the advance payment timetable for FP34C submissions will change for contractors who submit their FP34C through MYS by the 5th of each month from November 2021.

The table below shows the earlier advance payment timetable dates for prescriptions dispensed over the next 12 months. For example, if submission using MYS is secured by the 5th of the month following that in which supply was made contractors will receive an earlier advance payment from November 2021 (starting for October’s prescriptions). For the dispensing month of October 2021, a contractor will be required to submit their FP34C declaration through MYS during the first 5 days of November 2021 to receive an early advance payment on 11 November.

The table also shows final deadline submission to qualify for normal advance:

Further details for contractors are outlined in this PSNC Briefing

For those contractors who either submit their bundle late through MYS or submit their bundle using the paper FP34C submission document (up until March 2022), the normal advance payment timeline applies.

An estimated 100% of the normal advance payment for prescriptions is made by the NHSBSA for prescriptions submitted one month earlier (dispensed two months earlier). Payments are made on the 1^st of each month, where this falls on a weekend or bank holiday payment will be made on the working day prior. The paper FP34C submission document will only be available until March 2022 (for February 2022 prescriptions) after which MYS will be the only route for all monthly submissions. Contractors who continue to use the paper FP34C submission document (from November 2021 to March 2022) will NOT receive any earlier advance payments but instead will receive advance payments in accordance with the current payment timetable i.e on or around the 1st of the month following submission. Therefore, contractors who use paper FP34Cs for their monthly submissions are strongly encouraged to start using the MYS portal to make their declarations.

Normal payment option timeline

The Pharmacy Earlier Payment Scheme (PEPS) gave community pharmacies early access to their monthly advance payment for the provision of NHS pharmaceutical services. The scheme is now in the process of ending, with transition arrangements put in place for existing PEPS contractors.

As part of the transition arrangement, pharmacy contractors who are signed up to the PEPS, will receive a one-off payment on 1 November 2021 to bridge the gap between the current PEPS payment timetable and the new early advance payment timetable outlined above. The one-off payment will be set at 92% of the PEPS pharmacy contractor’s payment which the contractor will  have received on 1 October 2021. This one-off payment received on 1 November will be recovered in equal parts over 11 months, i.e. the last recovery will be on 30 September 2022. The 12-month transition period is intended to help ease any cashflow concerns and offer contractors time to review and discuss refinancing options with their banks or other lenders, if required.

Pharmacy contractors signed up to the PEPS are strongly advised to follow the new earlier timetable for advance payment as set out above to claim for November’s prescriptions by submitting FP34Cs using MYS by 5 December 2021 and by dispatching prescription bundles by 5 December 2021. Failure to do so will result in a gap of one month between payments.
PEPS pharmacy contractors, who wish to opt out from the transition arrangements outlined above, must notify the NHSBSA by 15 October 2021 by emailing nhsbsa.pepscontractorpayments@nhs.net.

PEPS pharmacy contractors, who choose to opt out of the transition arrangements, should note that they will experience a gap in payment between the last PEPS payment (i.e. made on 1 October 2021 for prescriptions dispensed in October) and the advance payment for prescriptions dispensed in November 2021 paid either on 9 December 2021 (if they follow the new earlier timetable) or 31 December 2021 (if they follow the current payment timetable).

In exceptional circumstances, where a contractor through no fault of their own is unable to submit the FP34C form through the MYS portal, contractors are advised to contact the NHSBSA either by emailing nhsbsa.mys@nhs.net or by contacting the MYS helpdesk number (0300 330 1368) between Monday – Friday (excluding bank holidays). Contractors should note that this route is available only for emergencies, which are related directly to the contractor (for e.g. connectivity issues/internet outage in the contractor’s area), and unrelated to the MYS platform itself.

Contractors, who will be using the email route, are advised that they must apply an electronic signature to the email to secure payment. Contractors, using the telephone route, are advised that the NHSBSA will contact the contractor via their preferred email address (provided to NHSBSA during the call), for them to confirm that the claim the NHSBSA noted via the phone call was correct, and the contractor must apply an electronic signature to the confirmation email to secure payment. An electronic signature may include a scanned image of handwritten signature added to the email sent to the NHSBSA. In case of the MYS platform being down, there will be instructions for contractors on the NHSBSA’s website on what to do.