Quality Payments Scheme support and advice for contractors
Written by admin on Thursday 29th November 2018
Read more for help, guidance and available support on the latest Quality payments criteria as well as publication of the NHS England guidance document
REMINDER: Check your HLP status
Community pharmacy contractors are reminded that if their pharmacy was accredited as a Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Level 1 locally or through the profession led self-assessment process this accreditation is only valid for two years.
Valid accreditation is required to meet the HLP criterion of the Quality Payments Scheme.
Learn more: PSNC news article: Quality Payments - HLP
REMINDER: Support available to meet the asthma referral criterion
Learn more: PSNC news alert: Quality payments - asthma referrals
UPDATE: NSAID audit now available for contractors to complete to meet the NSAID quality criterion
Learn more: PSNC news alert: Quality payments - NSAID audit
UPDATE: NHS have published a user guide to help uploading of CPPQ results to meet the CPPG Gateway criterion
Learn more: PSNC news article: Quality Payments - CPPQ
NHS England guidance finally published for February 2019 review point
The Quality Payments Scheme guidance document provides information on how community pharmacy contractors can meet the revised gateway and quality criteria requirements.
It also details the new declaration process via the 'NHS BSA Manage Your Service' application and highlights the new process for validation of the gateway criteria.
Contractors are strongly advised to read the NHS England guidance in order to understand the Quality Payments Scheme requirements. The new guidance should be read in conjunction with previously published NHS England guidance documents on the Quality Payments Scheme:
- NHS England – Pharmacy Quality Payments Gateway Criteria Guidance (published 23rd December 2016); and
- NHS England – Pharmacy Quality Payments Quality Criteria Guidance (published 27th February 2017).
All three guidance documents can be found on the NHS England website or on the following CPSC Quality Payments information page:
PSNC has published various resources for contractors to assist them with meeting the gateway and quality criteria of the Quality Payments Scheme; such as those mentioned above for HLP and asthma. A full list of resources can be found at psnc.org.uk/quality
Additional PSNC resources are currently being finalised and will be published in the near future; we will alert you when these are available.