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Further extension to Pandemic Delivery Service in new Tier 4 areas

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Further extension to Pandemic Delivery Service in new Tier 4 areas

December 31, 2020

Following yesterday’s (30th December 2020) Government announcement of the move of additional areas into Tier 4 from today (31st December 2020), NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) have confirmed that the Pandemic Delivery Service will also be extended to cover clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients living in the following new Tier 4 areas from today:

  • Leicester City
  • Leicestershire (Oadby and Wigston, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Blaby, Charnwood, North West Leicestershire, Melton)
  • Lincolnshire (City of Lincoln, Boston, South Kesteven, West Lindsey, North Kesteven, South Holland, East Lindsey)
  • Northamptonshire (Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, Wellingborough)
  • Derby and Derbyshire (Derby, Amber Valley, South Derbyshire, Bolsover, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash, Derbyshire Dales, High Peak)
  • Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (Gedling, Ashfield, Mansfield, Rushcliffe, Bassetlaw, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, Broxtowe)
  • Birmingham and Black Country (Dudley, Birmingham, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton)
  • Coventry
  • Solihull
  • Warwickshire (Rugby, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwick, North Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon)
  • Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (East Staffordshire, Stafford, South Staffordshire, Cannock Chase, Lichfield, Staffordshire Moorlands, Newcastle under Lyme, Tamworth, Stoke-on-Trent)
  • Lancashire (Burnley, Pendle, Blackburn with Darwen, Ribble Valley, Blackpool, Preston, Hyndburn, Chorley, Fylde, Lancaster, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre)
  • Cheshire and Warrington (Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Warrington)
  • Cumbria (Eden, Carlisle, South Lakeland, Barrow-in-Furness, Copeland, Allerdale)
  • Greater Manchester (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)
  • Tees Valley (Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees )
  • North East (County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland)
  • Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Cotswolds, Tewkesbury, Stroud, Cheltenham)
  • Somerset Council (Mendip, Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton, South Somerset)
  • Swindon
  • Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
  • Isle of Wight
  • New Forest

This change to the service requirements was announced, this morning, in a letter published by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

The service in the above areas will run until 23:59 on 1st February 2021 (please note that this date is later than the current expiry date for the other Tier 4 areas – see below for details).

Lists of postcodes in Tier 4 have been published on the NHSE&I website. Information on whether contractors or CEV patients are within Tier 4 can also be checked on the Government postcode checker webpage.

The Terms of Service requirements apply to all contractors in England (excluding Distance Selling Pharmacies), but as the only CEV patients that are eligible for support with deliveries are those living in the Tier 4 areas, only contractors located within those areas are likely to provide services to eligible patients on a regular basis.

Contractors located in Tier 4 areas will receive the Essential service payment for the days the service is active, as set out in Part VIA of the Drug Tariff.

If a contractor (excluding Distance Selling Pharmacies) is asked to deliver a prescription to a clinically extremely vulnerable patient living in one of the above Tier 4 areas, this can be undertaken during the above time periods, under the terms of the Advanced service and a claim for payment can be made via the Manage Your Service (MYS) platform. Claims should be submitted by the 5th day of the following month.

The service is already active until 18th January 2021 in the following original Tier 4 areas:

London – all 32 London boroughs plus the City of London.

South East – Kent and Medway; Buckinghamshire; Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, Wokingham, Windsor and Maidenhead and West Berkshire); Surrey; Hastings and Rother; Havant, Gosport and Portsmouth; Brighton and Hove; Southampton; Oxfordshire (Cherwell; Oxford; South Oxfordshire; Vale of White Horse; West Oxfordshire); West Sussex (Adur; Arun; Chichester; Crawley; Horsham; Mid Sussex; Worthing); East Sussex (Eastbourne; Lewes; Wealden); Hampshire (Basingstoke and Deane; East Hampshire; Eastleigh; Fareham; Hart; Rushmoor; Test Valley; Winchester).

East of England – Hertfordshire; Essex; Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton; Peterborough, Norfolk (Breckland; Broadland; Great Yarmouth; King’s Lynn and West Norfolk; North Norfolk; Norwich; South Norfolk); Suffolk (Babergh; Ipswich; Mid Suffolk); East Suffolk; West Suffolk; Cambridgeshire (Cambridge; East Cambridgeshire; Fenland; Huntingdonshire; South Cambridgeshire).

Further information on the service can be found here

 


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