Pandemic delivery service to be extended to new Tier 4 areas
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Pandemic delivery service to be extended to new Tier 4 areas
December 24, 2020
Following yesterday’s Government announcement of the move of additional areas into Tier 4 from 26th 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 new Tier 4 areas.
On Monday this week (21st December 2020), it was announced that the service would be restarted for CEV patients living in the original Tier 4 areas, as those patients were advised to recommence shielding, including not visiting pharmacies.
The Pandemic Delivery Service will be re-started for CEV patients living in the following Tier 4 areas from 26th December 2020 until 18th January 2021:
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South East – Brighton and Hove; Southampton; Oxfordshire (Cherwell; Oxford; South Oxfordshire; Vale of White Horse; West Oxfordshire); Surrey (Waverley); 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 – 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); Essex (Colchester; Tendring; Uttlesford). |
This change to the service requirements was announced, today (24th December 2020), in a letter published by NHS England and NHS Improvement.
The service is already active until 18th January 2021 in the following original Tier 4 areas:
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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 (excluding Waverley); Hastings and Rother; Havant, Gosport and Portsmouth. East of England – Hertfordshire; Essex (excluding Tendring, Uttlesford and Colchester); Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton; Peterborough. |
Read the announcement related to the original Tier 4 areas
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 above 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 period, 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.
Further information on the service can be found here
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